365 Bloor Street East, Toronto, Ontario, M4W 3L4. “The doctor cleared me to flex my quad muscle, so I’d be in there for two hours, I’d flex my quad muscle for ten seconds on, rest for ten seconds, ten seconds on, and I’d do that over and over again just trying to save the muscle.”.
Would the fibres of the severed PCL bridge the gap to re-attach and heal naturally?
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The threat of missing the 2019-20 season was real for Connor McDavid. Archived.
In the meaningless final game of the 2018-19 season, the Edmonton Oilers’ superstar crashed at high speed into the goal post after being fouled by Calgary defenceman Mark Giordano. No long-term contract, easy cancellation. Directed by Don Metz.
It really has to be seen to be appreciated, and interested observers will get multiple opportunities to do just that, beginning with this afternoon’s rebroadcast at 16:30 MST on SportsNet.That’s just before the All-Star Game(s) where McDavid will once again captain the Pacific Division team. Hockey fans watched in horror as the game’s brightest star lay on the ice for long moments, mouthing the words “it’s broken” before being helped to his one good leg and helped down the tunnel. I’ll have to give my money back if I stop doing that.”, Connor McDavid: Whatever It Takes will air Tuesday night at 10:30 p.m.
If progress was nowhere to be found by training camp, then the choice would be surgery.
Meanwhile, over at the office of the Edmonton Oilers, Ken Holland had been hired on as General Manager in early May, a month into the recovery process. Indeed, those two attributes can no more be separated than those PCL fibres that bridged the gap to make him whole again. McDavid then faced the biggest decision of his career: Undergo surgery, which would mean missing the entire upcoming season, or go the rehab route and see how the knee responded. PCL surgery is more serious still, and is much less common with more uncertainty about its outcome. While his initial diagnosis in April revealed a partial tear of his posterior cruciate ligament (PCL), McDavid spoke of getting a second opinion from a specialist in Colorado Springs who delivered devastating news: “The doctor told me that it was actually a full PCL tear, there were tears on both sides of my meniscus, tore the popliteus [muscle] right off the bone. We encountered an issue signing you up. [ Yesterday on Oilers NowHolland elaborated:“I came on board on May 6, a month after the season ended. CHECKOUT. While the doctor confirmed the complex diagnosis — complete tears of the posterior cruciate ligament, the posterior capsule and of the popliteus muscle, along with partial tears to both his medial and lateral meniscus cartilage, and, oh yeah, a tibial plateau fracture — he did offer hope that the injury could be dealt with in a different manner involving intensive rehabilitation rather than surgery.
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McDavid: “There’d be a lot of times we’d be sitting in that office, just me, Dr. Mascia and Dr Lindsay, and we’d be like ‘well, should we do the surgery or not?’ … We were in July & we were still saying ‘should we do the surgery?’ “, Finally came some good news when an MRI revealed the fibres were starting to cross the gap and reconnect. McDavid documentary "Whatever It Takes" is streaming on Sportsnet Now.
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Connor McDavid (97) of the Edmonton Oilers swings around Morgan Rielly (44) of the Toronto Maple Leafs for a goalduring an NHL game at Scotiabank Arena on Jan. 6, 2020, in Toronto. In June we weren’t sure the time frame, we though we’d wait until August when we’d have a better read on the time frame.
A welcome email is on its way. But there were plenty of tough days mentally for McDavid — days where self-doubt and frustration crept in. Connor McDavid: Whatever It Takes will air Tuesday night at 10:30 p.m. There was an error, please provide a valid email address. It seems like the cameras & cell phones never missed a beat from then on, capturing a vast array of clips from the recovery process interspersed with interviews of the key participants, notably McDavid himself, Dr. Mark Lindsay, Dr. Anthony Mascia, Dr. Dhiren Naidu (Oilers team doctor), T.D. He totally changed emotionally from that day.”, To think that if I’d done the surgery I for sure wouldn’t be playing right now, there was a question whether or not I’d play before the new year, whether or not I would play this year at all. “They just soldier through it. “There was great communication between the Oilers people and the McDavid camp.
The fact that I’ve been able to play 30 games and play at a fairly high level, the team is doing well, I feel very lucky and excited for what’s ahead.”, [Note: what McDavid calls playing at “a fairly high level” sees him leading the NHL in scoring while being on pace for new career highs in goals, assists and points.]. He totally changed emotionally from that day.”. “I was terrified to stand up…wondering if my career may be over.”.
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Before it was all awe about his natural talent. “At first we were thinking ok, this is an injury, we can come from back from it; and then all of a sudden there was a thought ‘I’m never going to play again’, “ACL surgery, most athletes get back to the elite level in about 6 months.
Hat’s off to Mark Lindsay and Jeff Jackson and all the work they did, and to the Oilers people Dr. Naidu and T.D. So at that point it was enough to have full reconstruction of the knee, full reconstruction of the PCL & the popliteus which would have been over a year recovery, & we don’t know how it would have really recovered.
pic.twitter.com/pc0MklS7BG, — NHL on NBC (@NHLonNBCSports) February 17, 2020. The documentary picks up right from that moment with previously-unseen footage of McDavid’s painful trip down the aisle to the Oilers’ locker room below the Saddledome stands. share.
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The hour-long production of local filmmaker Don Metz provides a gripping account of McDavid’s ordeal following the catastrophic knee injury he suffered last April 6.
Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Edmonton Journal, a division of Postmedia Network Inc. Rehab was the chosen path, but there were still points during the summer where surgery remained a potential option. The entire process, from the April 6 injury to his return on October 2, was captured in “Connor McDavid: Whatever It Takes,” a Wasserman produced documentary that will air at 10:30 p.m. That’s kind of what Connor’s summer was like.”.
Read more about cookies here. He gave me a very positive report — Bob and I chuckle the odd time about this — he gave me a very positive report, and then I was a little surprised when I got on the phone a few days after I took the [job] I was on a call with Mark Lindsay and Jeff Jackson and Gary Roberts and Dr. Naidu and T.D.
They put that bad day behind them and move on. hide. Sling Blue. An active Sportsnet NOW subscription was not found for your account. But when he showed off his vintage self by scoring against the Canucks on opening night — and added a little bit extra to his celebration — there was no doubt he was back. Nothing here suggesting this is “Bobby Orr in 1972” territory, but until we see the young man back on the ice and in full flight, it’s impossible not to be concerned. Go into SHOWS > SN PRESENTS > WHATEVER IT TAKES. Once he returned to the ice for opening night and was back to his old form, that’s when they wanted to tell his comeback entire story. Close. We ask you to keep your comments relevant and respectful. The project was months in the making and extremely covert, Metz says only a … A knee injury suffered in April began what would end up being a summer filled with grueling rehab for the Oilers captain. No guarantees that it would work, just that it might.A decision had to be reached quickly, and ultimately McDavid and his crack team of advisors went for the non-invasive route. ET on NBCSN.
When they started talking about the severity of the injury I was a little surprised. SLING BLUE.
$30/mo. With surgery already scheduled, McDavid was flown to Los Angeles for yet a third opinion.
That accounts for about 80 of the over 1,000 hours of rehab that ruled Connor McDavid’s summer as he demonstrated a commitment to recovery that brings back awe-struck memories of Canadian rowing great Silken Laumann. Forss, Gary Roberts, Jeff Jackson, Tracy Wilson, and numerous others involved in the rehab, as well as support people including his parents Brian and Kelly McDavid, his girlfriend Lauren Kyle, teammate Zack Kassian and Oilers executives Bob Nicholson, Ken Holland, and Dave Tippett. Now it’s deep admiration about his work ethic.
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This documentary is the remarkable comeback story of one of the NHL's best players after what could have been a career ending or altering injury.
In his words, during the interview “We did talk about Connor’s injury but it didn’t seem to be all that significant.” The other participant in that process, Oilers CEO Bob Nicholson, confirmed “I gave him information, I didn’t give him all the information.” A startling admission to put it mildly.