Recently three puckheads congregated around a few rounds of puck sodas on a sticky late summer night, and the topic of Mike Green's poor playoff showing arose. Among them this line of thought emerged: who in old media or new speculated that not only was Green likely playing injured for the Capitals during the postseason but that some of his decision-making and instincts on the ice could have been impaired by some manner of painkillers?
Green's postseason performance was so conspicuously substandard, and sustained, far beyond and level struggling he'd known before, we puckheads agreed. Is postulating that he played distinctly pained and numbed really an implausible line of speculation? Of course we'll never know for sure. But Greener's springtime fall was so precipitous relative to his record-setting standards of mid-winter, something truly anomalous had to have been afflicting him. We didn't much see him giddy-up-and-go with the puck as if with jet-propuls...
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