Musings from Mandy

I've read a lot about toughness over the past few days in the wake of Rich Peverley's scary incident on Monday night.  Many have lauded Peverley for his toughness of asking to leave the ambulance and return to the game.  You've probably seen this: Personally, I'm a huge fan of anything that makes fun of Lebron so I did giggle when I saw this, but I also really liked Bruce Arthur's take on toughness in sports ( Found here ).  He brings up that while Peverley was asking to go back in, rookie line mate Alex Chaisson stayed home in Dallas as well, too shaken up from seeing Peverley's incident to travel with the team.  In the wake of the Game 6 seventeen second loss, it was almost comforting in a way to hear about Bergeron playing through his myriad of injuries.  A way to know through the disappointment, the players we root for want it as bad as we do.  Should players be playing with injuries that require multiple nerve blocking injections be taking the ic...

This is from earlier in the night....All the teams did tweet some #thoughtsandprayers

So last night Josh and I were watching the Wire: Season 1 (which, I'm slowly starting to get into) and saw on Twitter that Rich Peverley had collapsed on the bench in Dallas.  We switched to Center Ice and watched the eerie silence from the fans and the announcing while we waited for an update.  I was, like most, relieved to hear he was conscious, especially after it looked like you could see what looked like them doing chest compressions in the hallway and knowing that he had issues earlier that year. What happened next is I think the best and worst of twitter.  First, we get a tweet from the CBJ's rink side reporter tweet that Coach Lindy Ruff said he was going to be okay.  Then, you have the plethora of #prayersforpeverley which I just find tacky.  First, I don't think Peverley is going to be checking twitter from the back of the ambulance.  Second, how many of these people are actually dropping to their knees to actually offer up a prayer. As more t...

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