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Captain Chaos
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Stinky
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On another board I heard him called: Nearly headless (Zed)Nick...
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Stinky
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He always was a streaky player.
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the New Cunning Linguist
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| On another board I heard him called: Nearly headless (Zed)Nick... |
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| He always was a streaky player. |
That's cold... Funny, but cold... 
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the New Cunning Linguist
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Here's a link to an update on Zednik... And at the bottom, you can post your well-wishes for him.
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the New Cunning Linguist
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Nearly Headless (Zed)nik stuns doctors. Great to hear that he's in good spirits. Hopefully, this doesn't affect him psychologically the same way it affected Malarchuk.
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Av-merican
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| the New Cunning Linguist wrote: |
| Nearly Headless (Zed)nik stuns doctors. Great to hear that he's in good spirits. Hopefully, this doesn't affect him psychologically the same way it affected Malarchuk. |
At least if that happens, the field of Equine dentistry is quite lucrative! |
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Bosc Ulrich II
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http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/2008/02/12/kelley_zednik_injury/
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The Ugly (but with a twist): There have been two major cut injuries in the NHL in my lifetime and I've witnessed both of them in Buffalo. The first one I saw was a skate across the throat of then Sabres goaltender Clint Malarchuk. It was the most sickening and terrifying thing I've ever witnessed at a hockey game until Sunday night when a similar accident caused a blade to cut across the throat of Florida Panthers forward Richard Zednik.
According to doctors in Buffalo, the Zednik injury (the result of teammate Olli Jokinen being upended and his skate blade making contact with an onrushing Zednik) was worse than the Malarchuk incident because it nearly severed the carotid artery, a major artery that carries blood from the heart to the brain.
Zednik left a drenching trail of blood from the corner to the bench, a sight every bit as disturbing as when Malarchuk flooded his goalcrease with red. The shock, horror and outright fear on the faces of both players is something I can never forget. It was the scariest and ugliest thing I've ever witnessed in sports and that includes the near-fatal hit Buffalo Bills special teams player Kevin Everett absorbed in the opening game of the NFL season in Buffalo last fall.
But before you start thinking that only bad things happen in Buffalo understand this: Richard Zednik and Clint Malarchuk and Kevin Everett are alive today because well trained hockey people and well trained physicians were proactive and highly skilled and moved quickly to avert what could have been tragic consequences. What doctors did to Everett by stabilizing him, immobilizing him and using a cutting edge technique of lowering his body temperature to minimize swelling, not only saved his life, but enabled him to recover to the point where he is once again walking and even doing some light jogging just months after a severe spinal cord injury.
Malarchuk and Zednik both were immediately treated by doctors who managed to control their bleeding by closing their hands over the wounds and stopping the pulsating bleeding that could well have caused them to bleed out in a matter of minutes.
In the Zednik incident Sabres team doctor Leslie Bisson was sitting in the fifth row near the tunnels where players exit the ice. He removed a moveable barricade and jumped down into the chute and had his hand to Zednik's throat the moment the Florida trainer and teammates had moved him off the ice. He kept it there all through the ambulance ride as the player was rushed to Buffalo General Hospital were a team of surgeons had been alerted and were standing by to repair the two-inch long, two-inch deep slash that nearly took his life.
Malarchuk got similar treatment (his outside jugular vein was severed) and he too was on the surgeon's table within minutes of the injury.
Like Everett and Malarchuk, the road back to a full recovery will not be an easy one. Everett is not likely to ever play football again. Malarchuk returned to the crease but for a variety of reasons, the injury included, never quite was able to recapture his form.
But that's in the future. Zednik survived an ugly incident and is alive today because he got care that was fast and good and at exactly the right time.
We tend to call people who play our game "heroes", but in the real world the people who stand behind them and us are the ones we should admire for a long, long time. The ones in Buffalo did their jobs and they did them very well. |
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the New Cunning Linguist
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Great read.
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PattyLa16
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| Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 11:20 pm Post subject: |
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Zednik was upgraded to "good" and moved to a private room.
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PattyLa16
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Malarchuk talks about Zednick
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Bosc Ulrich II
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Man, it's crazy to read from his perspective as well. I didn't realize that he skated off as well  It's amazing the kind of things that the human body will do and what your brain tells it to do as a survival mechanism
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That's great that Zednik is recovering...
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Bell Centre Ghost
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Great article Bosc.
Here's to... Frank? Bill? Jim? .... you know.. what's his name... the no-names :guiness:
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PattyLa16
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PattyLa16
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Zednik improving enough that doctor lets him have Buffalo wings
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Zednik is showing so much improvement that Noor authorized a special treat -- Buffalo's famed chicken wings.
"He asked if he could eat Buffalo chicken wings," Noor said. "So we let him."
A local eatery donated wings and pizza for Zednik, his wife and nurses at Buffalo General Hospital. |
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Bosc Ulrich II
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Awesome
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Tuzer
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| Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 8:19 pm Post subject: |
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Great read,Gets a guy a little choked up. |
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the New Cunning Linguist
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| Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 4:59 pm Post subject: |
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Nearly Headless Nick speaks up...
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