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GMs Discuss Injury Disclosure Policy

Puck Daddy found this 6/3/2008 on blog.washingtonpost.com

The biggest topic at the GM meetings in Detroit was how much information teams should be required to release to the media about injured players, according to this report. For years, the customary disclosure of injuries -- especially around playoff time -- was either upper or lower-body injury. The thinking was that if the extent or the location of an injury was revealed, then that player would be at risk once he returned to the...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.