"London captain Stephen Sanza left early in the second period and linemate Colin Martin was issued a match penalty for a slew foot on Attack star Joey Hishon in the Knights' 5-3, Game 3 loss Tuesday night in Owen Sound.
"I'm not commenting on the injury," London GM Mark Hunter said. "We have our doctor here and he'll get looked at (Wednesday). That's all we know.
Sanza was shaken up by a hit late in the first period. He returned after the intermission, but quickly went back to the dressing room with athletic therapist Andy Scott in tow."
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Monday, March 28, 2011
Job Opportunity: Hamilton Tiger-Cats Head Therapist
The Hamilton Tiger-Cats are a member of the Canadian Football League (CFL) with a rich 142-year history, which includes 15 Grey Cup Championships. Currently, the team is seeking an enthusiastic, self-motivated, organized individual to fill the role of Head Athletic Therapist.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
QUALIFICATIONS/OTHER:
The Tiger-Cats are seeking an individual with experience with contact sports who has demonstrated a capacity to implement pre-participatory and rehabilitative programs to aid in the ongoing development of the team. This person should possess a Bachelor degree in athletic therapy or equivalent and a understanding of athletic performance.
Application deadline: April 4, 2011
Starting date: April 2011
Reports to: Director of Football Operations
Salary: Full-time, commensurate with knowledge and experience
Interested candidates should submit their resume and cover letter to Shawn Burke, Director of Football Operations, via e-mail at sburke@ticats.ca
Official Job Posting
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Responsible for the care of Tiger-Cats players, including injury prevention, recognition, treatment, and rehabilitation
- Primary liaison between physicians, athletes, coaches and Football Operations staff
- Provides supervision of assistant athletic trainers and graduate assistant athletic trainer(s)
- Purchasing of athletic training room supplies and equipment
- Administration of athletic training room and department policies
- Administration of athlete medical records and physicals
QUALIFICATIONS/OTHER:
The Tiger-Cats are seeking an individual with experience with contact sports who has demonstrated a capacity to implement pre-participatory and rehabilitative programs to aid in the ongoing development of the team. This person should possess a Bachelor degree in athletic therapy or equivalent and a understanding of athletic performance.
Application deadline: April 4, 2011
Starting date: April 2011
Reports to: Director of Football Operations
Salary: Full-time, commensurate with knowledge and experience
Interested candidates should submit their resume and cover letter to Shawn Burke, Director of Football Operations, via e-mail at sburke@ticats.ca
Official Job Posting
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Spits rest and refuel for Monday's Game 3
"With the Spitfires not getting back to Windsor until after 4 a.m. Sunday, the team was more concerned with making sure they were rested.
“You take your rest when you can get it,” Spitfires athletic therapist Joey Garland said. “Because of the (playoff) runs they’ve had here the last couple of years, the coaches know when to push and when to lay off.
“It’s exhausting pressure, both physically and mentally, to play in a game like that and know every shift can cost you.”
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Garland had a litre of chocolate milk ready for players after Saturday’s game and between the first and second overtime, the Spitfires had pizza available for players in the dressing room.
“It’s not ideal, but the guys need the calories and the energy, especially the ones playing high minutes,” Garland said."
“You take your rest when you can get it,” Spitfires athletic therapist Joey Garland said. “Because of the (playoff) runs they’ve had here the last couple of years, the coaches know when to push and when to lay off.
“It’s exhausting pressure, both physically and mentally, to play in a game like that and know every shift can cost you.”
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Garland had a litre of chocolate milk ready for players after Saturday’s game and between the first and second overtime, the Spitfires had pizza available for players in the dressing room.
“It’s not ideal, but the guys need the calories and the energy, especially the ones playing high minutes,” Garland said."
Friday, March 25, 2011
Markov's agent steers clear of contract rumour
"Markov has been back on skates this week at the team’s training facility in Brossard, working out lightly under the guidance of the team’s head athletic therapist, Graham Rynbend.
It’s the latest step in the defenceman’s second rehabilitation stint from major surgery to the anterior cruciate ligament of his right knee.
Markov was knocked out of last season’s playoffs in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals in Pittsburgh, falling awkwardly into the boards when checked by the Penguins’ Matt Cooke. Surgery by orthopedist Tony Miniaci followed on May 5 in Cleveland, which led to summer-long rehab.
Then, freakishly, Markov wrecked the knee again on Nov. 13, just 11 games into the season and only seven games after he’d returned to action, catching his skate in a Bell Centre rut while jostling for the puck with Carolina’s Eric Staal.
Markov was operated on Dec. 8, this time by James Andrews in Birmingham, Ala., and has been working his way back toward the ice the past three months.
“Of course I’m not going to be the same. I’m going to be better,” Markov told reporters on Jan. 14, meeting reporters in the Canadiens’ Brossard dressing room for the first and only time since his second surgery.""
It’s the latest step in the defenceman’s second rehabilitation stint from major surgery to the anterior cruciate ligament of his right knee.
Markov was knocked out of last season’s playoffs in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals in Pittsburgh, falling awkwardly into the boards when checked by the Penguins’ Matt Cooke. Surgery by orthopedist Tony Miniaci followed on May 5 in Cleveland, which led to summer-long rehab.
Then, freakishly, Markov wrecked the knee again on Nov. 13, just 11 games into the season and only seven games after he’d returned to action, catching his skate in a Bell Centre rut while jostling for the puck with Carolina’s Eric Staal.
Markov was operated on Dec. 8, this time by James Andrews in Birmingham, Ala., and has been working his way back toward the ice the past three months.
“Of course I’m not going to be the same. I’m going to be better,” Markov told reporters on Jan. 14, meeting reporters in the Canadiens’ Brossard dressing room for the first and only time since his second surgery.""
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Oilers' Foster day-to-day
""I remember Legwand giving me a push and slamming my head off the boards pretty good,” Foster said. “I sort of realized what was going on when (athletic therapist) T.D. (Forss) was beside me and telling me to open my eyes. He asked me if I knew where I was and I knew where I was and what the score was.
“Lucky enough I didn’t forget any of that stuff. But it was pretty scary and I wasn’t feeling very well that night.”
It’ll depend on Foster’s progress as when he’ll be able to suit up again. The Oilers host the Calgary Flames on Saturday and the Los Angeles Kings Tuesday.
“It’s not really up to me,” Foster said. “It’s kind of a day-by-day thing. They kind of tell me what to do. I just deal with the hour in front of me and go from there.”"
“Lucky enough I didn’t forget any of that stuff. But it was pretty scary and I wasn’t feeling very well that night.”
It’ll depend on Foster’s progress as when he’ll be able to suit up again. The Oilers host the Calgary Flames on Saturday and the Los Angeles Kings Tuesday.
“It’s not really up to me,” Foster said. “It’s kind of a day-by-day thing. They kind of tell me what to do. I just deal with the hour in front of me and go from there.”"
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Canadiens training staff a well-oiled machine
"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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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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Canadiens athletic therapist Rynbend reaches milestone
"It’s seldom the happy stories that define the career of an athletic therapist, whose most obvious work is done when disaster strikes.
So it is that four catastrophic injuries are the benchmarks for Graham Rynbend, who on Tuesday night at the Bell Centre worked his 1,000th NHL game – all for the Canadiens.
Chronologically:
• Nov. 20, 1999: Brian Savage is crushed by the Kings’ Ian Laperrière, the open-ice check in Los Angeles fracturing three vertebrae in the forward’s spine.
• Jan. 29, 2000: Trent McCleary takes a slapshot in the throat during a Bell Centre game, which fractures his larynx and collapses a lung.
• April 26, 2002: Richard Zednik is destroyed on Montreal ice by an elbow from the Bruins’ Kyle McLaren, resulting in a fractured cheekbone, broken nose and concussion.
• March 8, 2011: Max Pacioretty is knocked out, severely concussed and suffers a fractured vertebra when slammed into a Bell Centre stanchion by the Bruins’ Zdeno Chara."
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"So Dave Campbell, currently the Canadiens’ osteopathy consultant under whom Rynbend had done clinic work, got him in with Lefebvre for the Habs’ 1994 training camp."
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"But he’s quick to laud his medical team – assistant Nick Addey-Jibb, his supervisor from a long-ago clinic internship who last week marked his 1,500th game in minor-pro and NHL hockey; osteopath Campbell; physiotherapy consultant Donald Balmforth; and game-night therapist Jon Geller, a newcomer to the staff."
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So it is that four catastrophic injuries are the benchmarks for Graham Rynbend, who on Tuesday night at the Bell Centre worked his 1,000th NHL game – all for the Canadiens.
Chronologically:
• Nov. 20, 1999: Brian Savage is crushed by the Kings’ Ian Laperrière, the open-ice check in Los Angeles fracturing three vertebrae in the forward’s spine.
• Jan. 29, 2000: Trent McCleary takes a slapshot in the throat during a Bell Centre game, which fractures his larynx and collapses a lung.
• April 26, 2002: Richard Zednik is destroyed on Montreal ice by an elbow from the Bruins’ Kyle McLaren, resulting in a fractured cheekbone, broken nose and concussion.
• March 8, 2011: Max Pacioretty is knocked out, severely concussed and suffers a fractured vertebra when slammed into a Bell Centre stanchion by the Bruins’ Zdeno Chara."
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"So Dave Campbell, currently the Canadiens’ osteopathy consultant under whom Rynbend had done clinic work, got him in with Lefebvre for the Habs’ 1994 training camp."
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"But he’s quick to laud his medical team – assistant Nick Addey-Jibb, his supervisor from a long-ago clinic internship who last week marked his 1,500th game in minor-pro and NHL hockey; osteopath Campbell; physiotherapy consultant Donald Balmforth; and game-night therapist Jon Geller, a newcomer to the staff."
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Argonauts ink Cory Boyd to contract extension
"Boyd has slimmed down over the winter, also with help from new Argonauts head athletic therapist Dave Wright. He said he’s close to 215 pounds again and has changed his diet, opting for fruit, yogurt, protein shakes – food he rarely ate before. He has a hard time staying away from McDonald’s, “but only for the chicken wraps” now, he laughed."
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Bulldogs woes worsen with weekend losses
"Sebastien Bisaillon, who was just called up last week from Wheeling of the ECHL because Nigel Dawes and Aaron Palushaj had gone up to the Montreal Canadiens, suffered a ruptured spleen in Friday night’s 3-2 loss. Bisaillon spent Saturday in hospital and it’s not known if he returned with the team Sunday.
Hamilton coach Randy Cunneyworth praised the actions of Bulldogs Athletic Therapist Luc Leblanc for recognizing the severity of Bisaillon’s injury and getting him to hospital. He confirmed that Bisaillon is done for the year."
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Hamilton coach Randy Cunneyworth praised the actions of Bulldogs Athletic Therapist Luc Leblanc for recognizing the severity of Bisaillon’s injury and getting him to hospital. He confirmed that Bisaillon is done for the year."
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Saturday, March 19, 2011
Athletic Therapist Nick Addey-Jibb marks his 1,500th game in pro hockey
"Tuesday, Montreal Canadiens athletic therapist Nick Addey-Jibb marked his 1,500th game in pro hockey. Addey-Jibb got his start in pro hockey with the Maple Leafs, spending a number of years in St. John’s as the AHL Leafs’ head trainer. One of hockey’s good guys."
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"On Tuesday, Habs athletic therapist Nick Addey-Jibb marked his 1,500th game in pro hockey. He’ll earn his wages Wednesday, and until further notice, in a clinic that’s bursting at the seams."
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"On Tuesday, Habs athletic therapist Nick Addey-Jibb marked his 1,500th game in pro hockey. He’ll earn his wages Wednesday, and until further notice, in a clinic that’s bursting at the seams."
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