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March 24, 2000
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Brady thrilled to be playing after nerve damage in knee
You’ll never catch Neil Brady taking hockey for granted. Brady nearly had his career taken away on Nov. 7, 1998, when, as a member of the Manitoba Moose, he was the victim of an unprovoked two-handed slash to the back of the right knee by Fort Wayne Komets’ defenseman Lee Sorochan. The slash caused nerve damage and a symptom known as ‘drop-foot,’ a condition in which the toes drag and the foot hangs, caused by weakness or paralysis of the muscles. Brady’s injury did not heal quickly and his attempt to play about a month later was futile. His International League season ended after just 13 games and he returned home to Calgary to contemplate his future. “There was too much time on my own and too much thinking about it,” Brady said.…
Tocchet in familiar digs, native son returns to Philly
The scene was vintage Rick Tocchet. With the Flyers down a goal and up a man, the newest/(almost) oldest Philadelphia Flyer was stationed in front of the Washington net. Ken Klee knocked him down. Tocchet knocked Klee down. That gave Tocchet just enough room to ram Valeri Zelepukin’s pass under Olaf Kolzig. The First Union Center erupted. The native son had officially returned and the crowd showered him with praise. “It gave me goosebumps,” said Tocchet after the Flyers’ 3-1 win March 9. The storybook ending was the culmination of a long but rewarding day for Tocchet, who was acquired in a March 8 trade with the Phoenix Coyotes for Mikael Renberg. Tocchet caught an early flight from Phoenix March 9, landed in Philly, then drove around looking for a good plate of pasta. It…
McEachern to stay a Sen, signs three-year contract
Shawn McEachern could have shopped himself on the free agent market this summer, but decided to play ‘Let’s Make a Deal’ with the Ottawa Senators instead. And the Senators gave the left winger nine million good reasons to stay. An unrestricted free agent July 1, McEachern, 31, signed a three-year deal with the Senators March 4. Included in the pact is a $600,000 bonus if the club deals him before the contract is over. “I’m happy with the contract,” McEachern said. “I had talked it over with my family and I figured there was nowhere else that I would rather be.” There was a school of thought that McEachern, making $1.3 million this season, would at least test the market before re-signing. He was second on the team this season with 26 goals and…
More misery as Murphy goes down
The Thrashers can’t get up and their best defenseman can’t lay down. This expansion thing just isn’t getting any better. Gord Murphy, Atlanta’s stabilizing force on the blueline, saw his season prematurely end for the second straight year due to injury when he suffered a dislocated shoulder March 4 at Ottawa. Last year with Florida, nerve trauma in his neck caused him to miss the final 25 games. Murphy, 33, was in such pain the day after the injury that he couldn’t sleep, in part because he couldn’t lie down. He described it as “close to having pain that blacks you out.” Murphy had just made a clearing pass out of his own zone when Ottawa’s Marian Hossa closed in and checked him into the boards. “I saw him coming, but I took for…
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