Scott Stevens: Post-concussion syndrome.

New Jersey Devil Scott Stevens has missed five games, one of the longest injury outages of his career, and now, he’s admitted he’s suffering from post-concussion syndrome.

This sucks, but given his style of play, it can’t be too surprising, either.

This problem is getting worse and worse in hockey, which is, fortunately, further along in understanding and dealing with the problem than other leagues — but so much just isn’t well-known. Sometimes, you get a concussion and it simply doesn’t get better.

I’ve talked about this before: here, here, and here. The problem isn’t going away, either.

And unfortunately, there are no easy answers, but the league can’t afford to lose players like Scott Stevens and Adam Deadmarsh (currently out indefinitely in LA, and who’s increasingly looking like he’ll never play again).

This just sucks, unfortunately.

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