Spencer Knight suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Spencer Knight has started the season in the shirt of Charlotte Checkers. PDO
Keeper by Spencer Knight the last NHL season was left unfinished. At the end of February, he started the treatment program of the NHLPA, i.e. the players’ association.
Knight covered The Hockey News this fall in the interview that he suffers from OCD, that is obsessive-compulsive disorderwhich began while he was studying and playing at Boston University in the 2019-20 season.
Knight washed his hands excessively and for no reasonable reason. He thought he might need help even though he wasn’t incapacitated or incapacitated.
Knight excelled in school and was one of the best players in the NCAA and the USA junior national team.
The Florida Panthers had booked Knight in the summer of 2019 in the first round, with number 13. In the 2020-21 season, he played four games in a Panthers shirt, the next already 32.
Last season OCD started causing bigger problems. Thoughts about getting sick and infections were running through my head, sleep problems bothered me and my ability to function decreased. Eventually, his name disappeared from the Panthers’ lineup.
As the Panthers played through a long spring and eventually the Stanley Cup Finals, Knight got help from OCD experts. In the fall, he returned to the ice and attended the Panthers’ training camp.
– I can still be the player I want to be, he told The Hockey News.
– I believe that I can be one of the best guards in this league. Maybe it will happen this year, maybe next year, maybe in three or four or five years.
Knight, 22, has started the season with the Charlotte Checkers, the Panthers’ farm team. After four matches, the save percentage is 92.5.