Raiders Sophomore Goes to Unusual Lengths to Reduce Pain

Langdon Alger,
Puckshack News
10/19/2019



If you were at the Raiders practice on Friday evening, you would have been treated to a strange sight: defenseman Adam Barron dressed in a full Darth Vader costume while taking part in on-ice drills. Meeting with a gaggle of reporters after the evening skate, he claimed it was to help him recover.

"First game of the season, I fractured my elbow. A couple of weeks after that, I dislocated my knee cap. Two games later, I broke my foot in three places. Then came the mumps. At some point the staff and I decided that it'd just be easier to lop off my limbs at the joints and rely on robotics to keep me upright. Less recovery time that way."

Most of the press at the practice had apparent difficulty determining whether the highly-touted defenseman was joking about such drastic changes to his body, though there were rumors from a couple of onlookers that Barron did raise one of the opposing forwards up off his skates using only the force.

"In the end, Adam's just trying to manage his pain." A senior training staff member added after the fact. "Mainly the pain that takes its toll on a player over the course of a season, but also emotional pain: it's difficult to see the Raiders last place in the standings through the helmet. I bet that helps."

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