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    Minnesota High School Hockey Player Paralyzed

    in General Hockey

    Posted

    Hey buddy @AlaskaFlyerFan,

    That link has been taken down. Sad story, I found this update: http://espn.go.com/h...dergoes-surgery

    I wonder if he's any relation to Pat (?) Jablonski the goalie from the late 1980s/early 1990s?

    How you doin', Pods?

    I had some trouble with it before I posted but it was still working. Here is the article.

    Too Soon for Another Wayzata-Benilde JV Hockey Game

    Sophomore Jack Jablonski suffers paralyzing injury

    Updated: Tuesday, 03 Jan 2012, 7:36 PM CST

    Published : Tuesday, 03 Jan 2012, 3:46 PM CST

    MINNEAPOLIS - Wayzata and Benilde-St. Margaret’s have canceled their Thursday night junior varsity hockey game, agreeing it’s too soon for Benilde JV squad to play after sophomore Jack Jablonski suffered a paralyzing spinal injury when the team met Friday.

    Minutes into the second period of Friday's game against Wayzata in the Holiday Hockey Classic, Jablonski chased a puck into the corner with two Wayzata players trailing him.

    An accidental check from behind left 16-year-old Jablonski motionless on the ice at the St. Louis Park Rec Center. Doctors initially thought he suffered a bruised spinal cord and two broken vertebrae, but Monday they said his spinal cord is actually severed.

    They don’t know if Jablonski will walk again.

    The Wayzata and Benilde varsity hockey team will still play Thursday as scheduled, at 7p.m. at the Plymouth Ice Arena. There will a moment of silence before the game in honor of Jablonski. There will also be a fundraising effort for the Jablonski family

    Tuesday, the Minnesota State High School League sent a note to all hockey coaches, officials and athletic league administrators on Tuesday urging them to renew safety efforts with their teams.

    ”As you are probably aware, a member of the Benilde-St. Margaret’s boys’ hockey team was injured in a junior varsity hockey game last week,” the note said. “In that contest an inadvertent check from behind resulted in the severe injury. This situation reminds all of us in the hockey community to renew our efforts to emphasize the elimination of hitting from behind in hockey and to emphasize proper contact techniques.”

    MSHSL makes the following recommendations:

    Coaches:

    • Daily remind your hockey players to eliminate checking from behind.
    • Prior to checking or contact drills, emphasize proper checking and contact technique.
    • Before every game and every period remind your team to be aware of hitting from behind situations and to stay away from those situations.
    • Be grateful when officials enforce the rules which will make the game safer for all involved.

    Officials:

    • In your pre-game meetings with captains and coaches emphasize appropriate contact and checking.
    • Prior to each period talk to the captains or coaches to again remind them of the points of emphasis.
    • When there are checks from behind do not hesitate to make the call—you are protecting all of the players involved.

    Hockey Players:

    • Remember what your coaches and the officials have taught you—stay away from checking from behind situations.
    • Remind each other to keep it clean and hit the brakes when you see the numbers on the back of the jersey.

    Read more: Too Soon for Another Wayzata-Benilde JV Hockey Game http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/dpp/news/wayzata-benilde-jv-hockey-canceled-jan-3-2011#ixzz1iXiE8knG

    Minnesota High School Hockey Player Paralyzed

    in General Hockey

    Posted

    Unfortunate result from "accidental check from behind".

    The neurosurgeon who operated on Minnesota high school hockey player Jack Jablonski, who was paralyzed when he crashed head first into the boards during a game last week, confirmed Thursday that the 16-year-old will never walk again and is "very unlikely" to regain movement in his arms from the elbows down.

    "Hopefully he is going to prove me wrong," Dr. Walter Galicich said in a press conference Thursday at Hennepin County Medical Center. "But we can't expect much recovery."

    The Benilde-St. Margaret's (St. Louis Park, Minn.) sophomore had surgery Wednesday to fuse damaged vertebrae and the procedure went well, but it also confirmed the catastrophic damage to his spine.

    "This news is devastating to Jack and everyone who loves him," Jablonski's parents wrote on his CaringBridge website late Wednesday. "Our hope and dream is that he will be able to prove this prognosis wrong."

    Jablonski has been in critical condition at HCMC since the incident last Friday and has been immobilized with a halo. Prior to surgery, he had regained some movement in his right shoulder and upper arm.

    Jablonski was hurt on a hit from behind in the third period of a junior varsity game between Benilde-St. Margaret's and Wayzata during a holiday tournament. While skating after the puck, Jablonski was hit by two players, according to JV coach Chris McGowan.

    "His face slammed against the boards and his body was straight up and down," McGowan said after the game.

    "It wasn't a booming hit," Wayzata JV coach Duke Johnson told the Star Tribune. "Was it a check from behind? Yes. Did our kid take eight strides and then hit him? No."

    Jablonski, who scored a goal earlier in the game, was a member of the Benilde-St. Margaret's varsity team, but was playing with the JV over the holidays to get more playing time.

    Benilde-St. Margaret's announced that Thursday's varsity hockey game against Wayzata has been canceled.

    ESPN

    Where is Briere?

    in Philadelphia Flyers

    Posted

    Hard to see the puck go into that hole.

    Vince,

    It certainly looks like there is no hole there in that picture.

    I went back and looked at the video (several times).

    (Elapsed time in the video) 1:00 - When the puck left Danny's stick - HUGE 5-hole.

    1:01 - Puck half way between Danny & Hank - Big 5-hole.

    Sitll at 1:01 When the puck hits Hank's stick - I can't tell if there is an open 5-hole.

    Where is Briere?

    in Philadelphia Flyers

    Posted

    *************I did not take that into consideration. Does anybody know if Giroux was on the ice?

    Giroux was on the ice. He made a cross ice pass to Vorachek and Vorachek put the puck on net. You can see it in thebegining of the video link posted above.

    Who can teach our D to play hard

    in Philadelphia Flyers

    Posted · Edited by AlaskaFlyerFan

    With all due respect Alaska...mthat was not the correct play. He sagged back way too much and gave rupp the screened shot. Now, if it was gaborik, maybe he needs to do that to respect the deek. Not the case with rupp. As someone else said, he made the right play for the rangers.

    It's a hockey play that happens on almost every rush in every game. It isn't Mez's responsibility to evaluate the skill level of the player that has the puck. He wasn't in a position to step up. There was too much gap for that. Nor should he go down to block the shot. He did what he is supposed to do...get between the puck carrier and his net. He tried to block the shot. Unfortunately, the by product of almost any blocked (or attempted blocked shot) shot is a screened goalie.

    I'm saying Mez played it correctly and you're saying he didn't We're going to have to agree to disagree on this.

    Where is Briere?

    in Philadelphia Flyers

    Posted

    I was thinking the ice was probably bad enough that he was forced to shoot. Not the shot I would have liked but I knew he was shooting.

    Remember 2 yrs ago when the Flyers beat he Rangers in the shootout in the last game of the year? Where did the shot go? 5-hole. That's where Danny was going and he had the 5 hole. All he had to do was lift the puck over the stick. He didn't get it up high enough.

    Hey, didn't you USED to be Jack Campbell?

    in IIHF

    Posted

    But Campbell also let in 7 goals in 2 games against inferior opponents. I thought he was a big reason the US was one of the favorites for gold. He was supposed to be one of the stars of this tournament, and he wasn't.

    He certainly could have played better but I wouldn't pin the tourney on him. The 3 goals against Denmark were all PP goals and he did didn't get much defensive help against the Czechs.

    Hey, didn't you USED to be Jack Campbell?

    in IIHF

    Posted

    @flyercanuck

    As you know, sometimes you lose a game because of a goaltender.

    I thought the US team completely out played the Czechs all game long. They were faster and won the races to the puck. They were more physical and took the body every opportunity they had. They controlled the puck and maintained possession ( I wish there was a stat for puck possession similar to football). I would bet thetime of puck possession was 3-1 in favor of the US. Both teams had their share of breakdowns. The only difference was the Czechs capitalized. And the most telling stat is the shots...US 54, Czechs 28.

    Sometimes you lose a game because of a goaltender. That goaltenders name - Petr Mrazek

    Marc-Andre Bourdon

    in Philadelphia Flyers

    Posted

    It will be interesting to see when Gus comes back because they'll have to make some moves on defense... Either MAB is sent back down, Walker gets waived, or Lilja gets waived. If I were a betting man, I would guess they send MAB down, even though I think that's the wrong move.

    My guess is Gus goes down. He'll need some time to get back in shape.

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