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Player Review: Nate Thompson
- Updated: August 6, 2016
AJ Manderichio | AnaheimDucks.com
As part of the AnaheimDucks.com annual Player Reviews, we will be featuring a different Ducks player throughout the coming weeks, in numerical uniform number order. Each review will include key stats, a highlight and an outlook for 2016-17.
An athlete’s recovery from injury is usually a long, arduous process filled with solitary skates and gym sessions. A return to health – and effective play – relies on the athlete’s ability to maintain his resolve and slog through the various ups-and-downs associated with the process.
Nate Thompson knows this feeling all too well.
When training camp opened last September, Thompson was often seen next to the glass at THE RINKS – Anaheim
ICE in shorts and a sweatshirt, dripping sweat from another grueling off-ice workout. The rugged center helped lead the Ducks to the Western Conference Final in the spring of 2015 despite playing with two labrum tears in his left shoulder, suffered after a collision with the boards late in the regular season against Arizona.
Thompson would watch – anxiously – as his teammates prepped for the upcoming season. Recovering from the first major surgery of his career wasn’t easy.
“Knowing I wasn’t going to be able to start the season was the hardest part,” said Thompson, who would …
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