What is a quiet room and what happens there? It’s all pretty mundane

When a player appears to have suffered a head injury, he’s taken to an arena location away from the loud distractions where a variety of baseline tests are conducted. There, a physician takes as much time as is required to examine the player and determine his playing status.

Memory questions are asked. Motor skills are performed.

“It’s a regular trainer’s room,”Alex Burrows said. “(In past years) the doctor comes in and it’s like: ‘Say the days of the week and say them backward.’ You’re asked to count, say your date of birth. There are some random questions and if you get them right — and you say you’re all right — you get back out there.

“Now, the questionnaire is way more solid with how you’re feeling with questions that you answer from one to five. If you say even a little that you have nausea or your eyes or hearing aren’t right or your neck is sore — you’re out of the game.”