Boston Bruins' Nathan Horton feeling healthy and ready for next regular season –NHL Injury Update
Young right winger, Nathan Horton, has established a good name for himself since joining the Boston Bruins franchise, which was only a year ago, but seems to still be something afresh, seeing how he has grown over the season and changed from the player he
used to be with Florida Panthers.
After being knocked out of the Stanley Cup final series because of sustaining a severe concussion due to a game-three, first period hit from Vancouver Canucks defenseman, Aaron Rome, Horton is feeling better and symptom free for the first time since then.
"I feel pretty good. I don't have any headaches. I'm back to normal and I'm excited to start playing again", Horton said. "It just takes some time and we had a little time to take off and I just feel like myself. I can't really tell you the timetable but
it was really quick and I feel good".
Rome was not let off the hook so easily and also remained out for the remaining duration of the 2011 Stanley Cup Final series after receiving disciplinary action from the National Hockey League (NHL) through a suspension.
To this date, Horton still believes that there are different ways players play and that difference should be acknowledged and dealt with properly.
"The people that don't understand that or don't get it, I think that that's what you need to fix and you need to change. That's the difference between hitting hard and hitting dirty and that's definitely something that shouldn't be in the game", Horton added
about the physical aspect.
The 26-year-old, Welland, Ontario, Canada native is back working out, but still has yet to make a comeback on the ice. A former third overall draft pick during round-one of the 2003 NHL Entry Draft by Florida Panthers, Horton will be entering his eighth
straight NHL season which just goes to show how valuable of a player he really is.
Last season, the forward contributed an impressive 53 points (26 goals, 27 assists) in 80 games while finishing off with a career high plus-minus rating of 29.
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