#24 – Not Sure If Serious or Playing Dumba

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This is the twenty-fourth post of Deke Dangle RPF Anon, a community for all your ice hockey anon meme needs.

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Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

I'm talking about the specific way his injuries (not just the blood clots) and retirement played out over the course of three different seasons. Stankos' and Vasilevsky's clots are pathologically totally different from career-ending clots like Dupuis' and Vokoun's.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

It wouldn't have taken three season if he hadn't been so stupidly reckless with his own life in the first place ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

Actually the recklessness had very little if anything to do with the protractedness of his various medical conditions, but ok.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

It has everything to do with how much he should just have retired instead.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

He made a reckless decision to play with the clot before reporting it. At that point it wasn't clear that he would never be able to play again, when other players have been somewhat successful in coming back. He waited it out, came back, and retired shortly after. It was obvious he was struggling in the end, but if he were less reckless about it, he would have retired, what, a month earlier? Up until that point, there wasn't a reason to think he couldn't at least give it a go.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

Dupuis' career was going to end soon anyways. It's ridiculous to pretend that it wasn't. I understand that he struggled with trying to play despite the clots and it was a lot for him to go through, but every year there are guys who have to make the tough decision about longterm health vs. continuing to play.