![]() Toronto has been one of the more active teams this offseason, signing prominent free agents like goaltender Petr Mrazek and making bets on young talent like Nick Ritchie and Ondrej Kase. Instead of each team only facing competition within their own division, they are moving back to full travel and interdivisional action, making the Leafs’ task much more difficult in the regular season. ![]() The NHL will be back to normal for their 2021-22 season. "It's obviously been disappointing,” Tavares said, “but you know how challenging it is, this level, this league, year in and year out, and many teams before us have faced their own adversity, their own challenges, their own doubts - whether that's externally or internally - and that's what makes competing and winning the Stanley Cup so special: really not knowing truly what it takes to get there until you get there, and trying to understand that part of it." ![]() "For me, it was nice to just kind of get back out and work on some things I wanted to work on," Tavares said, "come off the injury and be on the ice a lot, get a good feel for my game and build from there with a good group of guys."ĭuring the 56-game shortened NHL season, Tavares was able to score 19 goals and 50 points, good for third on the Leafs, while appearing in every single regular-season game for his hometown team.Įven though he was unable to see Toronto move on to the second round for the first time since 2004, the captain understands that this is just something some teams will have to traverse through to get to that next level. The Leafs captain needed to be stretchered off the ice and did not return for the rest of the series, but was luckily able to get back to some minor training just one week after the injury occurred.īefore camp opens, the 30-year-old centre has been doing some informal training with his teammates. Tavares was on the other end of Canadiens winger Corey Perry’s knee, in an extremely unfortunate on-ice accident during the first period of Game 1. The support from the hockey community has been tremendous." So it's been a good offseason and I'm doing great. Really fortunate it wasn't anything much more than the incident and really came out of the hospital doing really well ever since, and didn't really have any hiccups or any issues. "It's been a great offseason for myself from a health standpoint," Tavares said, "but even more so, I think just continue to get back to work and try to get better and recover well. Tavares, on Friday, took to Twitter to show his appreciation for the support he received following the incident.The Toronto Maple Leafs are still suffering from their postseason misfortune, but they at least got some good news this week.Ĭaptain John Tavares appeared on NHL Network this Thursday and said he is “doing fantastic” in his recovery process after a concussion and gruesome knee injury suffered in the playoffs last spring, and expects himself to be ready for training camp in mid-September. We are keeping in mind he has a young family and there is an onus on us to protect him and his future in that regard.” We can’t replace that element with John and cannot repair it. We will follow the protocols to a ‘T’ on that. We handle those in a very conservative nature and handle them very sensitively. “The knee injury you can give a timeline on but the head injury and concussion, it’s very difficult to place a timeline on when someone is going to return from that. “It will be a minimum of two weeks on that but obviously our primary concern is the concussion and making sure he returns to full health. ![]() “John was diagnosed with a concussion and also sustained a knee injury on the play, similar to the one sustained by Zach Hyman during the regular season in Vancouver,” Maple Leafs general manager Kyle Dubas said. The Leafs said Tavares would be out indefinitely following the injury, but updated that stance Saturday after the knee injury was discovered. ![]() Tavares out indefinitely after head injury suffered during Game 1 ![]()
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