Over the course of the summer, we’ve have players slowly reveal their injuries from the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
Most players have their injuries revealed after they are eliminated from the Playoffs, but the Pittsburgh Penguins’ process was a little different. Winning the Stanley Cup means most people aren’t paying as close attention to your injuries and are more concerned with how happy things are and how great the team is.
Well, now that things have settled down a bit, Dumoulin was able to sign a new $24.6M contract and reveal some of the difficulties he had in the playoffs. He broke his hand, but that wasn’t the end of it, apparently he broke his hand several times, or as told by the Post-Gazette “Severely. Repeatedly. Irreparably. At least for the time being”.
The hand was originally broken by a David Savard slap shot in the first round against Columbus. After that, Dumoulin himself described what happened.
“It would get better for a little bit, I’d do a cross-check then it would break again. It was a process…
It was obviously something I didn’t want. Sometimes you would not feel it until after the game. I don’t know. I have no idea. You just play with it and don’t worry about what it is.”
Dumoulin didn’t know how many times he broke it, but he played 20 games after the game he broke it. We have to imagine there were a lot of crosschecks thrown in that time.
Ouch.
