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Panthers’ Booth Leaves Game on Stretcher
by Alanah McGinley on 10/20/07 at 09:26 PM ET
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From The Sports Network,
Florida Panthers left wing David Booth was removed from the ice on a stretcher during the second period of a game against the Ottawa Senators Saturday night.
Booth was in the offensive left corner when he was checked from behind by Ottawa defenseman Anton Volchenkov with 15:12 left in the period. Booth’s head went flush into the boards and he remained on his back until medical personnel assisted him to the stretcher.
Volchenkov was given a five-minute major for boarding and a game misconduct.
Update 10:45pm ET - George Richards at On Frozen Pond
Booth has been taken to the Ottawa Civic Hospital, said to be alert and moving around. The Panthers are optimistic doctors at the hospital will release him and he’ll be able to make the charter flight home. [...]
The hit by Volchenkov may have been in retaliation for a similar hit just moments earlier. There, Florida defenseman Branislav Mezei sent Nick Foligno into the boards. Foligno had to be helped off the ice…
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now here is an interesting question… if a player is going to retaliate to a bad hit on one of his teammates, would you rather have the kids see (a) every player on the ice getting into a brawl, where only a couple of them are really fighting, and nobody ends up seriously hurt most of the time or (b) some other innocent guy getting face-planted into next week and having to be strechered off the ice?
Posted by fredster on 10/21/07 at 07:39 AM ET