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Every player who suffers a concussion is affected by and recovers from it differently. Some return right away, some need weeks to recover, some need months, some are never the same after they come back and others never come back at all.
Marc Staal was one of the NHL's steadiest defensemen the past two seasons, leading the Rangers in ice time and slowly developing the offensive side of his game. But a concussion he suffered toward the end of last season cost him the entirety of training camp in September and the first 36 games of the regular season and sent him back to square one. He spent a month trapped in his apartment doing nothing under doctor's orders, which helped his injury to heal but caused his game to deteriorate.
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