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Vladimir Konstantinov - Where Are They Now?
by Paul on 05/03/09 at 11:22 AM ET
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ESPN during their Sports Center show this morning did a feature on Vladimir Konstantinov. The video below is not as in-depth as the one that appeared on the show this morning but still gives us a look at Vladdy today.
update 1:05pm, added the full video of the feature below…
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Bad To The Bone
by Paul on 06/02/08 at 10:45 AM ET
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from Eric Adelson at ESPN the Magazine,
His number can still be spotted in the stands at games in Detroit—the red 16 sewn on white. He’s there too, sometimes, in the owner’s box, silently watching the ice below. His younger face still stares out from a picture on the wall facing the entry to the Red Wings locker room, so that every player can lock eyes with him before every period of every game. But what lingers most about the presence and absence of Vladimir Konstantinov is the idea of the player he would have been, and the reality of the team that has come to be without him.
A note about me- The Doc gave me some medication and boom, flashing is gone but could return. So I will roll with the punches and see how I feel later in the day… Maybe game 5 is in my sight....
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Vladdy Still On Our Minds
by Paul on 05/26/08 at 09:33 AM ET
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from Marty Henwood of Hockey.com,
Try as they might to block it out, fans of the Detroit Red Wings — hell, hockey fans everywhere — can still hear that sound. The sickening crunch of metal as the limo lost its battle with that tree on Woodward Avenue, ending the career, and almost the life, of their Vladimir Konstantinov.
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Lawyers Request $240 Million in Konstantinov Case
by Alanah McGinley on 05/23/08 at 01:24 PM ET
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From Paul Egan at the Detroit News,
A federal jury should award former Detroit Red Wings star Vladimir Konstantinov and former team masseur Sergei Mnatsakanov more than $240 million in damages for permanently disabling injuries they received in a 1997 limousine crash, a lawyer for the men argued Friday.
Attorney Richard Goodman told jurors it was ironic he made his closing argument in the lawsuit the day before the Red Wings were to compete in Game One of the Stanley Cup finals. The June 13, 1997, crash in Birmingham happened when Konstantinov and Detroit-area hockey fans were celebrating a fresh Stanley Cup victory that ended a 42-year hockey championship drought in Detroit.
The lawsuit alleges Findlay Ford Lincoln Mercury of Ohio, the company that sold the stretch limousine, is responsible for damages because no working seat belts were easily accessible in the passenger area of the limo.
Update 7pm ET: As per George’s note in the comments of this post, the jury found for the dealership.
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Konstantinov Trial Starts Today
by Paul on 04/28/08 at 08:54 AM ET
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from Francis X. Donnelly of the Detroit News,
He was Vlad the Impaler, a ferocious Red Wing known for flattening foes with bone-jarring hits on the open ice.
Now the 41-year-old can’t even take care of himself, slowly shuffling about his Metro Detroit condo with a walker.
It’s been 11 years since a limousine wreck turned Vladdy Konstantinov’s world upside down, a decade full of lawsuits and mental and physical rehab.
The legal maneuvering resumes today in U.S. District Court with the start of a trial that will try to ascribe blame for the injuries with the Ford dealership that sold the vehicle
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Suing Themselves
by Paul on 11/06/07 at 06:12 AM ET
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from the Detroit Free Press,
Ford Motor Co. expects former Red Wing Vladimir Konstantinov and former team masseur Sergei Mnatsakanov to pay for legal costs and any judgment that may arise from a lawsuit they filed against an Ohio Ford dealer over injuries they suffered in a 1997 limousine crash.
Konstantinov and Mnatsakanov settled their claims against Ford in 2001 for a total of $227,730. Now Ford has asked them to finance the lawsuit they both filed against Findlay Ford, citing an indemnification clause in the 2001 settlement.
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