Kole LInd in Vancouver to fix a broken nose.
Another case like Juolevi in Utica and Pettersson in Vancouver.
Minor injury.
A little more serious than we thought.
Juolevi to surgery and Petey to LTIR.
Lind received that injury on March 3rd. The worst medical facility in the land can diagnose a broken beak. It's March 20 and we hear he is in Vancouver to fix a broken nose. Guess there isn't a competent specialist at the Syracuse University Medical Center at Crouse Irving. He had to fly all the way to Vancouver. It's been 17 days since the injury. You don't say exactly when it was that he came there. NOTHING HAS BEEN MENTIONED ABOUT HERE.
Thanks for the info.
My roomate took a crosscheck to the nose just to the right of my crease and slumped to the ice along the end boards. Same guy that did it had seriously cut up 3 of our guys badly over 2 seasons. My roomie was also cut for a bunch of threads making 4. One look at him and the nose bent from the middle to an awkward angle towards his cheek said broken nose. I'm sure it didn't take a team of rocket scientists to determine the extent of Kole's injury either. Looks like we won't be looking to see him on the ice again soon. Too bad. I had a feeling this season was going to have huge influence on the determination of his future.
I went to the hospital with him 2 days later to see an ears, nose and throat specialist. He x-rayed, did a couple more tests, and then said,
"Hockey player, huh?"
"Yep."
"This will hurt for a second, but it will be over in a flash."
He inserted a what looked like Gauze wrapped instrument up his nostril on the side of the bend. Then made a quick wrist twist. Roomie yelled. Dr. backed up. Hand still gripping the tool. Moved back in a minute later. Carefully observed his work.
"I'm going to take this out now it's all over."
Well not quite. He placed his thumb and forefinger of the hand not gripping the instrument high on the bridge of his nose and as he puled the tool out he made a very quick tug straight down and the tug and removal were simultaneous and the procedure was done. He taped the nose across from cheek to cheek. It was a perfect job.
That scum bag got his a period later. One of the guys, who had previously had his chin in that natural crease between the chin and lower lip cut right straight through to the other side leaving his lower lip pushed up and over his lower teeth and hooked inside his mouth, got him back. Took a mess of stitches inside and out to close that one up and off season plastic surgery to clean out the scar tissue that formed between the two repaired lacerations.
The guy, a center, came across the blue line and cut to the top of the circle. His rw cut behind him . the assailant was back checking the goon. I eased out to take his angle. My D-man was closing on him. He dropped his right shoulder and was just about to snap a hard wrister when my d-man knocked his hip off line and he suddenly awkwardly spun away from me. When he turned back he was on the edge of the circle with a stream of blood shooting straight out of what looked like his eye socket. He rode the circle on one skate like it was a rail. His other leg was perpendicular to the ice like some kind of fancy figure skating glide. His blood made a spattered outline of the circle. The puck had slid into me and a I covered it mesmerized by the sight before me. The whistle blew. My d-man, the trailing back checker, and the wing cutting behind his center all ended up tripping over one another as the injured guy squirted through them. He crumpled to the ice at the bottom of the circle right in front of me and the red puddle quickly encompassed his head. The ref was on top of him and the trainers from both teams were slipping and sliding on the run. I got the Hell out of there. When I got to the beginning of our bench and leaned up against the boards, the guy who had done it WITHOUT being noticed by a fan, player, or official, asked me what happened. I said I couldn't explain it but the asshole had been carved. The tangled mass that was created by the 4 bodies intersecting had set the perfect screen for the short spear. It went unnoticed other than to say it had to have come in the 4-way collision.
It turns out the injury was to his eyelid. Luckily no damage to the eyeball just a perfect scalpel-like incision from one edge of the upper lid to the other side, but still connected at the edges. It was f***ing ugly. He was in shock and writhing in pain and even more in fear that he had lost his eye. He was done for the season. Our coach who was a hockey purist and detested stick stuff and any other illegal activity never said a word about this. Didn't ask who did it. Didn't care if the guy was seriously injured or not. This was one situation where justice had been served. Case closed.
Nobody felt any sympathy for him. His own teammates knew he had it coming. It was just a matter of what team would do it and when.
Live by the sword, die by the sword.
Nobody wore cages or face shields in those days so facial cuts were common, sometimes pretty severe cuts. Missing teeth were much more common than today as well. Thank god the sticks weren't made of the same kind of material as the current models. These blades today would be like scalpels in the hands of the idiots who learned to use them to purposely injure other players.
