Marc Andre Fleury may have Vesa'd his last Toskala in the NHL last night. We thank MAF for his service to this sport.
Researchers from the University of Waterloo are hoping to create a spit test for concussions so teams and players can't work around the subjective tests that currently exist. From my best understanding, when a brain is concussed it triggers certain trauma responses (chemicals that get produced by cells) in the brain. Some of those chemicals can pass through the blood-brain barrier and into saliva where they can be tested for. If those chemicals are found, it can be concluded with a degree of certainty that the patient had a concussion.
“I’ve been involved with my sons’ hockey and lacrosse teams and I’ve seen first-hand how challenging concussions have been with kids who play these competitive sports,” said Marc Aucoin, a professor at Waterloo’s department of chemical engineering, who was the first to share the research behind HeadFirst’s technology with Cordssen-David and worked with the team to develop the company’s concussion test prototype.
That research followed by this from DoPS. I don't know what their PR blitz yesterday was meant to accomplish either.
MPP and Laura Stacey got married over the summer. Devin has their story in CBC.
Ovechkin, after scoring a hat trick to get within 30 goals of Gretzky's record, is on the shelf for 4-6 weeks.
The Leafs visited Sick Kids yesterday to decorate mini sticks with their buds.
The Blues scored 11 seconds into their game, but they were three seconds slower than the Alex Steen franchise record.
32 Thoughts shared that teams were interested in Dennis Hildeby last year. This year who knows.
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