Maverick Lamourex: The player behind the giant

Maverick Lamourex RDS and RDS Direct, Tuesday evening at approximately 8:45 p.m., Game Cataract v. Oil Kings.

Montreal – Maverick Lamourex sets interview at 3 p.m. First of all his responsibilities: Appointment with a chiropractor. Are all the injuries that plagued the great defender this season still plaguing him?

Nothing, he assures us later. Weeks away from the biggest day of his young career, Lamorex swore he was in great shape. But he does not hide that there was a physical demand last year.

Hitting him on the shoulder in training camp did not disappoint him throughout the year. He forced him to play in Brace until the playoffs and he missed most of February. When he returned to action, he had two broken ribs due to a cross-check in the back, during a game with Roin-Noranda. He played despite pain for two weeks before a proper diagnosis. “I had trouble breathing, but I felt it was muscular,” he said today.

We weren’t even talking about the knee strike, which scared him the worst against Rimoski. “We hope to be absent for a long time,” Voltigers de Drummondville general manager Philippe Boucher told the L’Express newspaper. However Lamorex were in place from the next match.

“No one knows all these details,” he said over the phone. I kept it private, I could not say anything. Only those inside know it. Sometimes, there are those who wonder: “Crime, how bad is today?”. Sometimes it is due to injury …