Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Scary Moment in Detroit
A scary moment during the Detroit/Nashville game last night as Jiri Fischer suffered a seizure on the bench and the game was postponed. As Christy from Behind the Jersey notes, Fischer has had previous heart problems:
This incident happened just a couple of days after the Minnesota Wild honored Sergei Zholtok, who died when his heart failed during a game in Belarus last year.
In September 2002, he was diagnosed with a heart abnormality (his heart is apparently a little thicker than normal) after it was found on an electrocardiogram, which was part of Wings' preseason physicals. He was then given a stress test, which he passed. "There is a little abnormality, but nothing that will stop me from playing," Fischer said at the time. "It's nothing that will bother me emotionally. I wasn't scared about the abnormality. But I was scared about not playing hockey again. That was a shock for me."Back In Blue had some live blogging on the incident; James Mirtle, Eric McErlain from Off-Wing Opinion and Paul from Kukla's Corner has some updates as well. Mainstream coverage is available on TSN and The Globe and Mail.
This incident happened just a couple of days after the Minnesota Wild honored Sergei Zholtok, who died when his heart failed during a game in Belarus last year.
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