After an injury like Oliver Wahlstrom’s, merely getting on ice and playing games is not the end of the recovery process.
new york islandersFor all Wahlstrom’s positive talk a few weeks ago about how knee surgery that ended his season early and kept him off the ice for months had helped his mentality and allowed him a reset, what came next proved this won’t be so easy.
“Obviously it’s different,” Wahlstrom told The Post following the Islanders’ preseason finale, a 3-0 loss to the Devils. “But slowly getting back into it. Just take it one day at a time.”After an injury like Wahlstrom’s, merely getting on ice and playing games is not the end of the recovery process.When Anders Lee tore his ACL in March 2021, it took until about a year later before he started to look wholly like himself again.
“We’ve talked about it all training camp, he’s coming off a long layoff,” coach Lane Lambert said. “He’s getting up to game speed, he’s getting in situations that he can play in. To me, it looks like he’s still trying to find his way a little from a speed standpoint.” But for the time being, everyone involved has to grin, bear it and be happy with small steps as the 23-year-old tries to return to being himself.
Ditto for Lambert, who answered the question of whether Wahlstrom’s getting back to game speed needs to involve playing in regular-season games without committing to, “Yes.”
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