When will Kirby Dach come back to the game? This is the question that all supporters of Montreal Canadians arise.
Dach has been operated on for his knee for 6 months now (again). The organization had told us that it will be back in time for the start of the 2025-26 season, but now we hope that it comes back in time.
It is difficult to know as much in advance when an athlete can return to 100% of its form after a second surgery in the anterior cruciate ligament of the same knee.
To find out a little more about the situation of Kirby Dach, a physiotherapist named Gabriel Perreault was recently in the 98.5 FM to discuss some interesting details.
Gabriel Perreault (not the hope of the New York Rangers) worked for the Oceanic of Rimouski, Hockey Quebec and the Camp of CH recruits. And according to him, you have to be as patient as possible with him, a question that his graft will solidify more.
Canadian Kirby Dach injury | “The more we send it back to the game late, the more the tendon has become a ligament” https://t.co/l2uhsik08d
— 98.5 FM (@le985fm) August 16, 2025
First, the term graft means (in this case) to take a tendon elsewhere (whether on Dach, another person or even an animal) to replace the anterior cross ligament.
And as Perreault mentioned, the more we wait before he returns to the game, the more the tendon will become a ligament.
As in the case of Dach, when you arrive at a second surgery for the anterior cruciate ligament on the same knee, the failure rate increases.
The latter, however, added that for surgeries like this, 60% of the gentleman and Madame Tout-le-Monde come back to their level prior to surgery. And in the case of athletes like hockey players, the physiotherapist specifies that it can increase up to 80%, which is quite encouraging.
All this varies according to surgery, because there can be limitations for the athlete in question.
There is a variety of physical and psychological tests to test the strength of the operated knee. When I speak of force, I speak as much of the maximum force as endurance.
And the goal is to compare the strength of the two knees, to know where the operated knee is located. And ideally, we want a difference of 10%as much as possible.
In short, this chronicle has certainly allowed us to learn more about an operation in this way and possibly less worry about the return to the Dach game.
Can we still hope that he comes back in time for the first game of the season? Of course, but we know that the tricolor management will not precipitate his return to the game to make sure that he is the best possible.
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