"It was two weeks ago Tuesday night that Canadiens forward Max Pacioretty was laying face down in front of his team’s bench, unconscious.
Unknown at that moment was that the 22-year-old had suffered a non-displaced fracture of his C4 vertebra and a severe concussion, the result of being driven into a thinly padded, glass-supporting stanchion at the end of the visitors’ bench by Boston Bruins captain Zdeno Chara.
The sickening check had happened a few strides from Graham Rynbend, who as usual was behind the Canadiens’ bench as the team’s veteran head athletic therapist.
And before Pacioretty’s body had even slid to a stop along the boards, Rynbend was in motion.
In just a few minutes that night, the Canadiens showed why they’re considered to have one of the finest medical units in the NHL."
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"Rynbend was joined by Dr. David Mulder, the Canadiens’ chief surgeon and head team physician; Drs. Tarek Razek and Kosar Khwaja, trauma specialists at the Montreal General Hospital and assistants to Mulder; Nick Addey-Jibb, Rynbend’s veteran assistant therapist; Dave Campbell and Donald Balmforth, respectively the team’s osteopathy and physiotherapy consultants; Jon Geller, hired a few months ago as a game-night athletic therapist; and Don DelNegro, the Bruins’ longtime athletic trainer who left his bench, without being asked, to offer assistance.
The Canadiens’ diverse medical team responded as though someone had simply thrown a switch, and that wasn’t by accident.
The club has a working arrangement with John Boulay, an athletic therapist/osteopath who teaches a sports first-responder course nationwide, and Gary McHugh, a Quebec paramedic."
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