The Colorado Avalanche announced on Monday that they had signed forward Curtis Glencross to a PTO. At first speculation, Avs Nation were forced to conclude that Jack Skille’s injury in Sunday’s game must have been pretty bad. However, it quickly became clear that forward Jesse Winchester’s concussion from last year’s preseason is affecting him in a bad way, and his days as a pro hockey player are dwindling.
It really is sad because concussions have been a recent target of discussion in all sports (Will Smith’s new movie), and certainly with hockey as well, especially when considering the amount of deaths associated with former enforcers in the NHL.