Can you tell us what's going on?
It's on DirecTV, Fox Sports Detroit. It looks like Jiri Fischer took a puck to the throat. They did CPR and took him away in an ambulance.
ETA: Was reported incorrectly, he wasn't taken in the ambulance to a hospital, he's still in the arena and it looks like he's breathing on his own now. Good news!
The game's cancelled. Check out ESPN News if you have it
http://www.nhl.com/news/2005/11/244334.html
8:48 PM EST, 11/21/2005
Red Wings defenceman Jiri Fischer collapses on team's bench during game
DETROIT (CP) - Detroit Red Wings defenceman Jiri Fischer collapsed on the team's bench during the first period of a game against the Nashville Predators on Monday night.
It was unclear what caused him to collapse, but reports suggested the 25-year-old Czech took a puck to the throat while seated on the bench with 7:31 left to play in the period.
The game was stopped immediately and players from both teams were sent to their dressing rooms.
An ambulance came to the end of the arena while medical staff attended to Fischer.
Red Wings captain Steve Yzerman and forward Brendan Shanahan stayed on the ice and helped Fischer's fiancee, Avery, across the surface to be with the player.
Shortly after Fischer was taken into the bowels of the arena, zambonis came onto the ice to re-surface it.
Nashville was leading 1-0 when the game was stopped.
Thanks for the updates guys! I kept checking the sports channels, but they weren't reporting anything. There are so many things flying about right now, from heart problems to seizures. I hope he's okay.
UPDATE!
http://cbs.sportsline.com/nhl/story/9055972
Game called after Red Wings' Fischer suffers seizure
Nov. 21, 2005
CBS SportsLine.com wire reports
DETROIT -- Red Wings defenseman Jiri Fischer had a seizure on the Detroit bench late in the first period of Monday night's game against the Nashville Predators and was listed in stable condition at a hospital.
Fischer was given CPR at the bench and a defibrillator was used before the 25-year-old native of the Czech Republic was removed on a stretcher. The game was called off with no makeup date immediately announced.
Team spokesman John Hahn said Fischer was taken to Detroit Receiving Hospital and was stable, breathing on his own and responsive.
"It looks like he's going to be OK," Hahn said.
Play was stopped with 7:30 left in the period after the Red Wings alerted officials to a problem. Medical personnel worked on the 25-year-old Fischer at the door to the bench for several minutes before he was wheeled back toward the Red Wings dressing room.
The decision was made to resurface the ice then, and the remaining time was to be added to the second period. But the game was postponed instead.
Red Wings captain Steve Yzerman and forward Brendan Shanahan helped escort Fischer's fiancee across the ice to the bench area.
Fischer was diagnosed with a heart abnormality in September 2002, causing him to miss two days of practice. The problem was found on an electrocardiogram as part of a routine battery of tests during the Red Wings' preseason physicals. When the result was abnormal, Fischer was given a stress test that he passed.
"There is a little abnormality, but nothing that will stop me from playing," Fischer said at the time. "It's nothing that will bother me emotionally."
He said that his heart essentially is a little thicker than normal.
"I wasn't scared about the abnormality," Fischer said. "But I was scared about not playing hockey again. That was a shock for me."
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He's in stable condition, supposedly awake and talking at hospital. Here is the radio station that carries the game. They are talking about it and trying to update.
http://gameradio.nhl.com/cc/playa.ph...dio_050909.asx
Thanks, will try and listen!
I'm not able to pull that link or that site up. Did you have to go somewhere to sign up for it?
I just went to the NHL Detroit RW site and clicked on Game Day and listen, but I doubt there will be much more info on it tonight.
Try this. Click on the Red Wings Listen Now. It requires Windows media player.
http://www.nhl.com/radio/index.html
The link worked, thanks! But, I don't think there's anything to listen to. Is good info to have though!
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