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September 5, 1997
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Injured Red Wings upgraded to ’good’
Detroit Red Wing team members Vladimir Konstantinov and Sergei Mnatsakanov remained in the rehabilitation unit at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich. They were upgraded from serious to fair condition July 23 and from fancondition to good condition Aug. 21. The two, along with defenseman Slava Fetisov, were in a limousine June 13 when the car veered off the road and crashed into a tree. Fetisov sustained chest injuries and was released from the hospital six days later. Defenseman Konstantinov and team masseur Mnatsakanov sustained head injuries and were in comas. Both have since emerged from comas, but continue to need extensive therapy. Konstantinov still cannot talk and, as of Aug. 20, had just started to eat soft foods. He still needs a feeding tube to insure proper nutrition and has lost…
LaFontaine could be back soon
The long simmering issue of what’s to become of Buffalo Sabres’ captain Pat LaFontaine is heating up again. LaFontaine was consulting neurologists, head gear specialists and various equipment manufactures in the off-season and though no one has come out on the record yet, the Buffalo News reported sources said LaFontaine will likely be at training camp in September. The Sabres’ premier offensive player, LaFontaine was sidelined nearly all of last season with the effects of cumulative concussions. There were rumors he was preparing to play late in the season and he was indeed skating with the team, but he never suited up, not even for a pregame warm-up. Having taken most of the season and all of the off-season to rehabilitate, he’s ready to resume playing again, according to sources. That’s both a plus…
Juniors to adopt plan
When Gordon Kirke used to hear rumors of sex ual harassment in junior hockey, he would ignon them. If the front page of the newspaper contamed a story on sexual abuse ot children, he’d flip to the sports scores. He didn’t want to hear it, didn’t want to talk about it, didn’t want to see it. Even after Sheldon Kennedy went public in January with allegations of sexual abuse at the hands of his Western League coach, Kirke said he couldn’t grasp the gravity of the issue and, in all honesty, preferred not to know. “I was naive, I guess, in my understanding of the problem,” he said. “I’d heard about these things and 1, like many others turned my back to it.” Six months later, this same Toronto lawyer is cam paigning…
Roenick likes concept, but won’t flip lid
Ever the free spirit and risk taker, there un doubtedly have been times when Jeremy Roenick takes one of his classic Harley Davidson motorcycles out for a spin, leaves his helmet at home and roars around town with his long hair whipping in the wind. This easy rider has always liked to live life a little oil ths?(Jgp It’s the same way he plays hockey, with a relentless, helter-skelter approach. But would he ever consider taking advantage of a somewhat obscure rille that Slakes helmets optional? The 27-year-old center admits he has considered it. “I think it’s kind of appealing,” Roenick said. “It goes back to the old mentality when players back then went all out. It wasn’t really the kind of beat-’em-up, grind-’em-up hockey that it is today, but it was a neat…
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