Patrice Cormier, Team Canada's World Junior captain and forward for the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies was ejected from a QMJHL game in overtime on Sunday when he came off the bench for a line change, cut through the faceoff circle at center ice, and layed an elbow to the face of Quebec Remparts defenseman Mikael Tam.
The 18-year-old defenseman suffered trauma to the skull and brain and lost many teeth. He is now hospitalized in stable condition and is expected to be released possibly as early Tuesday.
A Remparts spokespesron said a brain scan was taken after the game, and a second scan Monday showed "everything normal."
The Remparts' official team website says fans can send "get well" messages to Tam.
Cormier, a 19-year-old native of New Brunswick, was traded to the Huskies on January 7th. The little bastard who was playing in just his third game with the team, has not yet been heard from publicly.
Remparts head douchetard/coach, Patrick Roy, filed a complaint with the Quebec Provincial Police following the game. They are now handling the incident and have collected several witness statements. (I guess video proof isn't enough these days.)
Could this be Karma coming back at Roy for the shit he's encouraged his own children to do in the past?
The QMJHL released a statement on Monday saying that the incident is under review.
Commissioner Gilles Courteau says he won't be commenting on the situation today, but the statement said that once the disciplinary process has been completed, the Disciplinary Prefect, Raymond Bolduc, will announce the sanctions.
I would would throw the book at this fucker and make an example out of him!
Cormier was in the news back in December for a shot he put on Sweden's Anton Rodin where he used, as the announcers says, "a lot of elbow" on Rodin's nose as he headed to the bench in a pre-tournament exhibition game!
A classy mother fucker, isn't he?
Action in the QMJHL is, without a doubt, highly competitive and hard-hitting, but these types of situations in the minor leagues have gotten way outta control lately!
If these kids aren't fuckin retarded from these head shots they take, by the time they become pro hockey players they'll be nothing more than Goons and expert cheap shot artists.
Hockey was supposed to be trying to get away from this kinda bullshit, but when our kids are leading in an area like this, it shows that the major leagues need to set a better example.
In a study to be published in the February issue of the journal Pediatrics, Carol DeMatteo, an associate clinical professor in the School of Rehabilitation Science, found that children who receive the concussion label spend fewer days in hospital and return to school sooner than their counterparts with head injuries not diagnosed as concussion. "Even children with quite serious injuries can be labelled as having a concussion," said DeMatteo. "Concussion seems to be less alarming than 'mild brain injury' so it may be used to convey an injury that should have a good outcome, does not have structural brain damage and symptoms that will pass."
But despite the benign terminology, a concussion is actually a mild traumatic brain injury which could have serious repercussions.
"Our study suggests that if a child is given a diagnosis of a concussion, the family is less likely to consider it an actual injury to the brain," DeMatteo said. "These children may be sent back to school or allowed to return to activity sooner, and maybe before they should. This puts them at greater risk for a second injury, poor school performance and wondering what is wrong with them."
I am all for bone crushing hits, knock-out punches and ass kicking line brawls, but this shit has to be regulated and the rules must be enforced accross the board!
Maybe the Powers That Be can institute a new form of conduct code where violations of this nature will be placed on some form of permanent record that will follow a player through his entire career.
We've all worked very hard promoting this great sport just to revert to the old stereotype that hockey players are nothing but stupid Neanderthals like Daniel Carcillo or Donald Brashear.
We'd be better off feeding our kids paint chips!
It is time for the great and powerful Gary Bettman to assemble all of the hockey league commisioners and start another 'Task Force' to look into this very serious problem, again, before they end up with nothing more than violent pumpkins skating around in circles, looking for dance partners.....
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