{"id":213841,"date":"2025-09-09T21:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T21:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/213841\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T21:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T21:35:10","slug":"tj-oshie-thinks-participating-in-arp-treatment-contributed-to-his-trade-from-blues-to-capitals-i-wasnt-doing-the-teams-training-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/213841\/","title":{"rendered":"TJ Oshie thinks participating in \u2018ARP\u2019 treatment contributed to his trade from Blues to Capitals: \u2018I wasn\u2019t doing the team\u2019s training anymore\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Capitals made a trade for TJ Oshie<\/strong> on July 2, 2015<\/a>, a blockbuster move that saw Troy Brouwer and goalie prospect Pheonix Copley head the other way to the St. Louis Blues.<\/p>\n

Both teams were looking to make a major move to boost their Stanley Cup chances after repeated disappointments in the playoffs. But if you ask Oshie, St. Louis may have had extra motivation to ship him out of town.<\/p>\n

The 38-year-old speculated on a recent episode of the \u201cSpittin\u2019 Chiclets\u201d podcast<\/a> that unsanctioned muscle training using a non-team-approved machine could have played a role.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to try it \u2013 maybe [it was] part of the reason I got traded from St. Louis, too, because I told them I wasn\u2019t doing the team\u2019s training anymore, I was doing the ARP,\u201d he said. \u201cI think it had something to do with it\u2026 I think there\u2019s a chance.\u201d<\/p>\n

An ARP machine, or Accelerated Recovery Performance machine, uses an electric current to lengthen muscles and improve blood flow for recovery and treatment of chronic pain, according to ARPneuro<\/a> \u2013 a company that boasts Oshie and dozens of other athletes on its list of satisfied clientele.<\/p>\n

Oshie was one of 75 NHL players, including former Capitals Taylor Chorney and Karl Alzner, who freely admitted to using the treatment in a story written by the Washington Post in 2017<\/a>. He\u00a0described experimenting with the ARP machine to treat several injuries, including back pain, an ailment that followed him to DC and eventually forced him out of hockey for good.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI actually got into it because I was so injured. In St. Louis, I was lifting like super, super heavy weight. I was really getting after it,\u201d Oshie recounted on the podcast. \u201cMaybe that was the start of my back [pain], but my back was just like terrible, and my hips, everything. I used it before one game \u2013 Chris Porter let me use it to warm up, and my back pain disappeared. I was like, \u2018Oh my gosh.\u2019 So I got [a machine] \u2013 actually, a lot of the boys in St. Louis got on board with me and we would use it just to warm up, that was it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oshie broke his ankle in 2010, his second year in the NHL, and used ARP to aid in his recovery. He returned to the ice a month ahead of schedule and credited the machine as being a major reason why.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat kind of sold me there,\u201d Oshie said in 2017.<\/p>\n

While the device is FDA-approved, some teams do not endorse its usage by players. St. Louis was one of those teams, according to Oshie. He recalled the moment he got the call from Blues general manager Doug Armstrong that he was headed to DC.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was actually sitting down watching golf. I actually had the ARP on, I was doing like a recovery protocol,\u201d he said. \u201cI told him about the ARP. They didn\u2019t want me to do it. I told them I wanted to do it anyway.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd [Armstrong] got on the phone and he was like, \u2018Hey, Osh, how\u2019s it going?\u2019 I was like, \u2018Oh, it\u2019s going great. I\u2019m in the best shape of my life. I\u2019m ready to rock. I\u2019m so excited for the season. I\u2019ve been skating, I\u2019m healthy.\u2019 And he is like, \u2018Okay, well yeah, that\u2019s great. You\u2019ve been traded to the Washington Capitals. Brian MacLellan will be giving you a call here.\u2019 And then that was it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nobody from St. Louis\u2019 front office has ever publicly stated ARP treatment contributed to the decision to trade Oshie in 2015. He went on to lift the Stanley Cup with the Caps three seasons later and scored the second-most goals for the club (192) since joining that summer, trailing only Alex Ovechkin (422).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Capitals made a trade for TJ Oshie on July 2, 2015, a blockbuster move that saw…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":213842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-213841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115176493912152206","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}