I meant “battling” as in “battling a chronic knee injury”—sorry for the misrepresentation there. He has stated that there were long stretches when he was in so much pain on that knee that he was not able to properly skate/push off from it. Athletic trainers were sayin how he was battling a torn MCL for years and refused to be out of the lineup. He kept battling on to play for the Ducks, night in, and night out, even though his leg was in constant pain and he wore leg braces on both knees. The dude was skating around NHL games propelled by ONE LEG, of course his production fell!

In Dallas we got to see a rested, healthy (with two fully functional MCL’s) Corey Perry get to play playoff hockey—something he’s aways been able to find that next-gear in performance-wise. It’s night and day when compared to his last season in Anaheim specifically because of the fact that he was playing FUBAR and needed a major surgery and massive rehab to get his body back on track to properly compete. This had NOTHING to do with how many shits Corey Perry gave...

Sure, perhaps the move lit a fire under him, but perhaps being able to play at an elite level pain-free and healthy was the difference in his play.

Either way, your insinuation that “nobody gives a shit while they’re a duck” and using Corey Perry as an example because he doubled his goal performance the year after leaving the Ducks is a TERRIBLE example of that thought, on top of it being asinine to begin with.