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November 5, 1999
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Vujtek finally back on ice after second serious injury
Vladimir Vujtek is upright, conscious and not bleeding. He would like to say this should be taken for granted, but the Czech native hasn’t exactly had a healthy hockey career. Vujtek. who suffered a 200-stitch cut on his cheek after being sliced by the skate of New York Ranger Valeri Kamensky in a Sept. 18 exhibition game, was activated from the injured reserve fist Oct. 21, a welcome addition to a team in need of speed and skilled forwards. Six months ago, Vujtek, a left winger, was knocked unconscious and suffered a seizure on the ice during a game in the Czech Republic. ‘Two times I could have died on the ice,” Vujtek said. “It’s scary. “Now I feel pretty strong. As soon as I start playing, I can forget about all of those…
Kotyk goes under knife to correct life-threatening illness
At 19, most athletes don’t have a care in the world, let alone think a life-threatening illness could strike at any moment. But as much as Ottawa 67’s goalie Seamus Kotyk tried to block it out of his mind, he realized something was wrong. He’d get winded scuffing up the crease before the start of a new period. He’d be bent over trying to catch his breath after a goalmouth scramble. And late in games, it felt like his heart was going to jump out of his chest. Kotyk was eventually diagnosed in late September with an abnormal heart rate-cardiac arrhythmia-but other than telling team officials, he kept it from his teammates right up until the surgery was performed Oct. 18. He had been given clearance to continue playing until the surgery. “I didn’t want…
Colgate prepared to gamble with just seven defensemen
With only seven defensemen on the roster, Colgate coach Don Vaughan knows his Red Raiders are flirting with disaster. “We’ll be OK, as long as we don’t have any injuries,” he said with a laugh. The decision to begin the season with just seven blueliners was a simple one. “It’s the nature of the beast,” Vaughan said. “We felt we needed forwards to get more depth up front. When we got the forwards we needed, there was no more (financial) aid available. “We could have brought in a full-pay candidate, but chose not to. We didn’t want to go that route just to have another body available.” Vaughan is aware a couple of his defensemen have a history of injuries. Senior Byron Pool had a knee injury, then had his appendix taken out last season.…
Scoring rises in overtime
If it was exciting hockey the NHL was aiming for when it introduced 4-on-4 play for overtime this season, then there must be a lot of smiling faces at the league’s head office. The bold move has injected excitement into a part of the game that, due to its very nature should have been nail-biting, but had become just five more minutes of clutching and grabbing with few winners declared. Overtime this season-with one skater per club pulled off the ice and each team guaranteed a point for tying after regulation time-has put fans back on the edges of their seats. Twenty-six of the first 107 games went into overtime this season with six-23 per cent-producing a winner. Through the same number of games last season, 18 went into overtime with just one…
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