Despite injury history, Wolfpack’s Chase Stanley just sees the positives
TORONTO — Ask Chase Stanley to detail his surgeries and the former New Zealand rugby league international makes like he’s playing Simon Says.
The 29-year-old Toronto Wolfpack centre touches his left shoulder and then right shoulder — both twice — and then his left knee twice.
His 100th game in Australia’s National Rugby League ended in tears in April 2016 when he was forced off the field with a torn hamstring. In a league whose regular season lasts 24 games, it took him nearly a decade to mark the milestone.
“Stanley is one of the unluckiest players, from perhaps the unluckiest family, to take up the game,” the Sydney Morning Herald wrote in December 2016.