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Updates on Numminen and Thibault
by Alanah McGinley on 01/09/08 at 06:20 PM ET
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From Mike Harrington at Sabres Edge,
Lots of news from the Sabres camp Wednesday around Teppo Numminen and Jocelyn Thibault—two guys who haven’t seen the ice much this season outside of practice.
The latest on Numminen is that he’s been told he has to wait six months after his heart surgery—or the middle of March—before Sabres doctors clear him for full contact. And while it still smells like the Sabres are trying to shirk their way out of paying any of his $2.6 million salary, I reached Numminen at his home today and he said, “doctors talk to doctors” when asked what has changed in the last week since he gave a glowing post-practice report after a return from the Cleveland Clinic. The heart is fine but no one, he says, is confident the scar in his chest cavity is sufficiently healed for him to play.
continued... with updates on Thibault as well
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You know, I’m gonna be honest: Numminen is about to die on the ice and he’s too stubborn to know it.
My dad is a seven-year survivor of a quadruple bypass. The amount of medications he takes discourages him from exercising too severely (relatively speaking, of course). He takes Coumodin [sp], which is one of the most dangerous prescription drugs in the business. For those that don’t know, it’s a blood-thinner. It’s supposed to help with blood flow but the downside to that is that the blood DOESN’T clot. When you cut yourself, your blood clots to help seal up the wound and heal itself. Coumodin prevents that.
An open-heart surgery requires the doctors to crack open the sternum to get to it and that piece of bone takes a looooooong time to heal.
And this guy wants to play?
He’s nuts. I admire that he wants to play but after seeing Jiri Fischer being resuscitated by CPR and a well-placed portable defibrilllator, Numminen should just retire.
Posted by SYF from Las Vegas, NV on 01/09/08 at 06:39 PM ET