It wasn’t a concussion, which doesn’t mean there weren’t days when it felt like one.
As Mika Zibanejad explained to The Post, the month the Rangers’ top-line center missed due to an ambiguous “upper-body injury” was because of a neck ailment — which is what coach David Quinn had said all along. When Zibanejad was plastered on a reverse hit from the Bruins Patrice Bergeron on Oct. 27, he tweaked something in his neck that led to pain, discomfort, and the inability to play.
Yet in a league ripe with misleading injury information, the speculation was inevitable.