Séquelles: The aftermath or aftereffects of an incident or an illness.
As seen in: « Le joueur vedette Sidney Crosby des Penguins de Pittsburgh est à l’écart du jeu pour une période indéterminée parce qu’il ressent de nouveau les séquelles de sa commotion cérébrale. »
(Translation: “The star player of the Pittsburgh Penguins, Sidney Crosby, is out of the lineup for an undetermined timeframe because he’s once again feeling the aftereffects of his concussion.”)
I dunno guy, but the last time I checked, Sid the Kid didn’t have a mullet. And the ladies say he has two testicles, though I wouldn’t know…
You could say I’m faced with somewhat of a dilemma at 10 o’clock tonite, as it seems my sporting interests have been double-booked. Both the Stamps and the Flames are in nationally-televised action tonite–and both games start at the exact same time!
The Flames drop the puck on their 2011-2012 season at the Saddledome tonite with the visiting Pittsburgh Penguins coming to town. Last year, the two teams met in Pittsburgh, where Sidney Crosby notched a hat trick in a 4-1 win. Fortunately for us, he’s not in the lineup, still feeling the effects of post-concussion syndrome. On the other hand, Jarome Iginla, who missed a big chunk of training camp, is penciled in on the Flames’ first line with David Moss and Alex Tanguay. Yeeeeah Baaaaaby!
Even without their star player, the Penguins still won their season’s opener in Vancouver on Thursday, besting the Canucks in a shootout, 4-3. Matt Cooke, one of those ex-Canucks that I still can’t stand, scored twice against his former team. Somebody check him into the boards for me, will ya?
Speaking of Vancouver, that’s where the Stamps find themselves tonite, playing at the brand-new B.C. Place for the first time. The winner of this game will put themselves in first place in the CFL’s Western Division, where the Stamps currently hold a two-point advantage over the Lions. And it was B.C. who got the best of us at McMahon a few weeks back, in what was one Calgary’s worst performances of the season–surpassed only by that embarrassing Touchdown Atlantic showdown in their next game.
That said, the Stamps ran roughshod over the Saskatchewan Roughriders last week, putting 40 points on the board, with newly-instated starting RB Jon Cornish doing most of the damage on the ground. But there’s no hotter team than B.C., winners of six straight, who put their own 37-point whipping on the Riders in Week 13. I think the forecast in Vancouver calls for lots of offence, with both teams looking to take the third and deciding game of the season series. Should be a good one…
If anything, my focus will be more on football tonite, though I’ll be frantically flipping back and forth between channels, for sure. Unfortunately, I can’t go to my local sports bar–or any sports bar, really–to watch the two games simultaneously, since there’s some sorta UFC thing on tonite, and any sports bar that doesn’t want to be completely empty, save for a few expat Calgarians, will be showing that shit. Man, if McGuinty wanted to balance the budget, he should simply stick a civil servant at every sports bar showing ultimate fighting and charge a 10-dollar “idiot tax” to all who enter. The provincial coffers would be full in no time! 
In the meantime, I must apologize in advance to my neighbours–except for the one whose pile of garbage on the balcony brings the bugs to my window–for the string of bilingual profanity that’ll spew from my mouth should things go awry this evening. Let’s hope for the best, for their sake.
Good thing for Google’s suggested spelling tool is all I hafta say about this…
Interesting column by François Gagnon in La Presse today, where he talks to a Montreal physiotherapist who believes he can get to the root of Sidney Crosby’s concussion issues. Maxime Gauthier has helped rehabilitate Simon Gagné and Matthew Lombardi, among others, and he suggests that what’s holding Crosby back might not be the concussion per se, but a “disruption of signals transmitted by the brain’s nerves” (rough translation), as was the case with the two aforementioned players.
When it came to Gagné’s injury, Gauthier prescribed Tramacet and Tramadol, along with manipulation therapy, and the player returned to the ice a few days later, scoring a game-winning goal against the Leafs. But he says that NHL teams have ignored this method—until he proved that it worked.
« J’ai été accueilli avec des gros yeux à Tampa et à Toronto. Les médecins me regardaient comme le «ti-cul» qui est sorti de Chicoutimi … Mais après m’avoir donné la possibilité de m’expliquer, ils ont réalisé que je les amenais sur un sentier différent et que ce que je proposais avait beaucoup de sens. »
(Translation: “I was met with wide eyes in Tampa and in Toronto. The doctors looked at me like some asshole from Chicoutimi … But after they gave me the chance to explain myself, they realized that I was taking them on a different path and that what I was proposing made a lot of sense.”)
Hey, Sid the Kid apparently picked up some French in Rimouski, so maybe he should read the article and give this guy a call.
From http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=375308
Competing for headlines in the hockey world with the tragic Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash, Sidney Crosby and his doctors held a press conference today to announce that Sid the Kid is only at 90 per cent, and won’t be ready for the start of training camp. Even a few commenters on this Crosby-related story couldn’t help but look at the bigger picture:
By the way, in case you missed it in the other post, Eric Francis of the Calgary Sun wrote a heart-felt tribute to McCrimmon, with quotes from a fistful of former teammates. Well worth reading for fans of the Flames’ glory years…
