Congrats, Clint, And Good Luck
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by @DaveDavisHockey on 07/11/11 at 09:19 AM ET
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If life were fair then bad things wouldn’t happen to good people. Maybe such omnipotent injustice exists to inspire us when we witness a fellow human being emerging victorious over monumental challenges thrown his way.
With over 20 years of the precincts in since a fateful night at the Aud in Buffalo, Clint Malarchuk is winning.
If you haven’t already, please read the Calgary Herald article to which Paul linked yesterday on the new goaltending coach of the Calgary Flames (feel free to fast forward past the gross cattle-slaughter discussion). There’s a good reason why many in the blogosphere and twitterverse are chatting up this piece.
I still recall watching that game in ’89 on television with my girlfriend at the time. I remember the shock of seeing the accident and her crying thinking the worst, seeing the blood continuously pouring out of Malarchuk’s neck, and my feeling so lightheaded and queasy that I had to walk to the bathroom to splash cold water on my face.
It was so bad that the broadcast crew begged for the camera to be moved off of Malarchuk for the sake of tens of thousands of stomachs in Buffalo and St. Louis (For Sabres fans: The guy who actually said, “Please, take the camera off of it” was Mike Robitaille, who at the time was the color analyst beside the legendary Ted Darling).
This story is much more about mental illness than hockey. Perhaps it makes you think about people in your own family who have been through tough times, either through self-destructive decisions derived from their own dysfunctional character or simply from just having a run of bad luck. Not that you love a person any less for the reason, but all that we’ve been told about Malarchuk suggests that for him it’s been the latter.
Here’s hoping for the best for a cowboy from Alberta with another new lease on life.
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