Vladimir Tarasenko has been the subject of several rumors in recent months and all the issues he faces are familiar to the eyes of Chris Pronger and Brett Hull, two former members of the St. Louis Blues organization.
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“It’s taxing; being out of the game for so long, being in rehabilitation and thinking of coming back healthy and getting injured again, relativized Pronger, at the sports site The Athletic, Wednesday. I certainly understand his frustration at putting in the effort to get healthy and then hurting himself again. That in itself is taxing, in addition to the rehabilitation, the injury and all the things you have to go through. ”
Pronger knows what he is talking about, he who has been under the knife 15 times, including 13 times during his hockey career. Tarasenko’s situation
The Russian striker has had to undergo two shoulder operations which have limited him to 34 games in the past two years. Rumor has it, however, that the medical procedures were not carried out well by the team’s medical staff, which resulted in the bond of trust in the team being broken.
And when such a bond is broken, it is certainly difficult to find the motivation to perform to the fullest. And this link does not crumble over two or three bad performances, but over the length of one or more seasons.
“There’s probably a good reason it’s happening,” said Brett Hull. Either they think that you are better than the return that you bring, or that you play while being dissatisfied, thus badly. When fans and GMs look at players with a certain level of talent, there are always expectations. ”
Strength of character
No matter how much pressure or frustration Tarasenko feels in his current situation, the two former Blues all-star players have stressed, however, that attitude, or the way you look at things, can greatly influence performance on the ice.
“I’ve always played with the mentality that no one can stop me,” Hull said. Every night my mission was to score and if I didn’t have that mentality the players and the defensive systems are good. If you’re not battling for every inch of the ice wanting the puck and standing out, it’s certainly not easy to score in this league. ”
“We can take it in two different ways,” added Pronger. Either use these reviews as fuel to fuel your fire to push harder for health, or take them the opposite and say “go ch … I don’t want to try again!” and quit. “
The fact remains that Tarasenko is an extremely talented player that even the Seattle Kraken, expansion team, did not want. If he has the capacity to return to his level of play of yesteryear, the stakes to make his acquisition could go up rather quickly.
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