Primeau, doctors question whether Crosby should return after fourth concussion
TORONTO — Having suffered at least four concussions himself, former NHL forward Keith Primeau has a good idea of what injured Pittsburgh Penguins superstar Sidney Crosby is going through.
Head injuries eventually forced Primeau from the game in 2006. He had tried for over a year to get back in the Philadelphia Flyers lineup but was eventually told that it would be best if he stopped playing.
Primeau retired a month later.
“If I knew then what I know now, the ultimate decision would have been for me to call it quits earlier,” Primeau said Wednesday. “But there was no chance that I was ever going to do that. How do you convince somebody? You’re playing a little bit of Russian roulette.”