Those two sentences are essentially the same. Neither states whose decision it is to actually play (that'd be the HC) - they both state in order to be eligible to play, medical staff has to approve first.
If I read "The medical staff decides whether or not the player is healthy enough to play." - It does not insinuate the medical staff decides who plays. To me it reads the same as your sentence ""the medical staff clears the player to play - not to decide whether the player plays.""
Right, that was the point of my gif reaction. Steve (the second statement) called Vers (the first statement) wrong, then proceeded to correct him by repeating what Vers already said. It seemed to be an attempt to argue just for the sake of arguing.
