The French winger had a number in his eyes that would have meant a lot to his team — and then his knee got ripped to shreds
Faced with a long summer of rehabilitating his surgically repaired knee, Antoine Roussel could be morose.
“It’s a first-time experience. I hope it will be the last,” he admitted last week as the Canucks met with the media at Rogers Arena for the last time in the 2018-19 season, with a frankness that’s become familiar. Want the truth? Roussel is almost always ready to speak it. “No Grouse Mountain or other places. Normally I’d say, ‘Oh, I’ll play tennis. I’ll do this, this and this.’ Not this year.”
“I thought I’d come back to play, I thought I had a big charley horse or something like that. I was more worried about my head; I thought, ‘Holy f— that was a big hit.’ And then I was fine but my knee was weird,” he said.
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