#Emily Kaplan

[annieqattheperipheral]

"it was great🙂😐"

precious captain refusing to take the spotlight. rated himself "good"

[maljic]

bench shenanigans

[trilliath]

This ESPN interviewer makes me very happy because so far in all the interviews I’ve seen her do she takes the time to say her final thank you to the player in their native language. The surprised little smile she gets from them is so Good.

[icedbatik]

[drartemysia]

Emily Kaplan about Jack again-- get your tissues ready

Notable quotes from the article linked above (June 13, 2023). The main topic is Jack's injury, surgery and rehab:

How the injury came to be

Eichel can't pinpoint exactly when the issues began. "A few years ago, I started dealing with some symptoms," he said. "It wasn't necessarily something that was going to keep me out of the lineup, but I was dealing with it and playing through it." In a March 2021 game against the Islanders, Eichel hit his head against the boards, which resulted in a herniated disk in his neck. He missed the rest of the season.

2. What the spinal fusion surgery (the one Jack didn't want to have and the Sabres were insistent on) would have entailed (emphasis mine):

"The spine has three curves, and the reason it's shaped like that is because it's for movement," Lindsay said. "The best athletes in the world move with these transition areas in the spine. Guys like Connor, Cale Makar, [redacted because ick], Jack, the outliers, they move really well there." Lindsay rehabbed several NFL players who had the fusion surgery, and he didn't like the resulting rigidity in a segment of the spine. "In hockey, you're moving and the puck is moving," Lindsay said. "When you see it with Jack on the ice, he's very fluid in his movement. He would have lost that, just to make it super simple, he would have lost the accuracy to make those nice passes that he makes."

Have you ever seen Jack skate circles around other players? Because you should. This is the first example that comes to mind.

3. How bad things got:

Time was of the essence as he felt increased numbness in his arm from the constant pressure to his disk. 

I repeat, his fucking arm was going fucking numb. I'm going to feel sick. He has talked elsewhere (especially in this interview with Chris Weidman, a UFC fighter) about some episodes of numbness, which started to be more and more frequent. How terrifying that must be, he was 23 years old.

4. The rehab process:

"I wanted him to get back into the natural flow of skating and movement as soon as possible," [Dr. Mark] Lindsay said. "He was pretty rigid at first. Pretty stiff. I had him on the ice three days a week, just stickhandling. It was an emotional change for him. The frustration of dealing with everything he had to go through, being sidelined for so long. Getting back onto the ice was significant for him, emotionally." But Lindsay knew Eichel's body was a mess after having overcompensated for his neck for so long. "His pelvis needed a lot of work," Lindsay said. "He was inefficient in overall movements, and that's what I had to unwind."

Finally (emphasis mine):

"The hardest part is some people want you to fail in some ways," Lindsay said. "But someone had to be the pioneer. Years from now, we'll be talking about this as the Jack Eichel surgery, in the same way as Tommy John."

In conclusion (emphasis mine):

"The fact that an institution or team has trump value when you have to invasively cut somebody open, I think that needs to be changed," Prusmack said. "It's why Jack's story is so important. You now have elements of coercion based off economic agreements, which should not be part of our health system. Jack did what he did for the right reasons. I'm proud of him; that's hard to do in our culture."

Eichel said he doesn't feel any effects from the surgery at all; the only sign is a pink scar on the front of his neck.

(Emily have you been in my drafts, because "the scar, a pink horizontal line dividing Jack's life in before and after" is something that I wrote months ago)

[thornescratch]

Emily Kaplan: --stretch that you and your team are on right now? *gets snowed, doesn't miss a beat* Thanks, Kuzy. Alex Ovechkin: *chuckling* Oh yeah, it's Kuzy. Uh. I think it's like, uh. *still chuckling, shakes head* ...Idiot.

Evgeny Kuznetsov tries to snow Alex Ovechkin, misses him completely, snows ESPN reporter Emily Kaplan instead, and gets fondly called an idiot by his captain.

[thighlerseguin]

Roope being confronted with his bobble head | PIT @ DAL | March 23, 2023

[suicidepokecheck]

I don't really care for the ESPN NHL broadcasts, except for Emily Kaplan. She's a gift. (x)

[iwantahockeyhimbo]

guys what the fuck is my life

[youwillfindilluminating]

emily kaplan is my girlfriend and every time I see her on tv I make a face like this :3

[annieqattheperipheral]

DETECTIVE KAPLAN PLS WHY ARE YOU INTERROGATING THIS CHILDREN'S BOOK AUTHOR

[doghartzy]

also once again returning to the utopian vision of the future where instead of announcers hired on specifically for the national broadcast, whenever there’s a national broadcast u get one of the announcers from each team’s local broadcast and stick them in a box together. the nhl needs to embrace chaos.

[drartemysia]

from emily kaplan's twitter

just know that i'm chewing on glass about this

[xfactor7aurora]

X-doodles FT OTHER MARVEL CHARACTERS

[workingforitallthetime]

as everyone else gave boring predictable answers to the boring “what skill would you steal from someone in the nhl?” question (matthews’ shot/mcdavid’s speed BORING BORING BORING), leo carlsson said he would steal “lundqvist’s looks” and i just might be getting attached to this guy.

[thornescratch]

BIRD CRIMES STRIKE AGAIN.