Saturday, January 19, 2013
With their season opener slated for Saturday night against the New York Rangers, the Boston Bruins spent much of the week in Wilmington in an abbreviated training camp.
The season officially begins on Saturday night for the Boston Bruins. But before they hit the ice of TD Garden against the New York Rangers, the Bruins spent the week in Wilmington getting ready for the new campaign. Fans packed the stands of Ristuccia Arena throughout the week to watch the team take part in an abbreviated training camp following the lengthy NHL lockout. With one exception, the training camp went off without a hitch during the week. "We spend just as much or more time here than we do anywhere else," said defenseman Adam McQuaid. "We're definitely excited to be back. There's always a good crowd out to watch practices. We're excited to be back here and we're enjoying it." Though practices took place during the morning hours …
Friday, January 18, 2013
While Wilmington police and good samaritans rescued a man in the stands, Bruins players watched helplessly from the ice. After practice, they expressed their admiration for the first responders.
Their season opener was just two days away. But it wasn’t the New York Rangers who were the biggest topic of discussion in the Boston Bruins locker room following practice on Thursday at Wilmington’s Ristuccia Arena. It was the life saving efforts that saved a man's life just over an hour earlier. Players had just taken the ice when they looked into the stands and saw their trainers, an off duty EMT and Wilmington Police officers working feverishly to save the life of a man who had a cardiac event in the stands. Under the orders of head coach Claude Julien, who didn’t want to the players to serve as a distraction as first responders worked to save the man, the team remained on one knee on the ice, silently serving as spectators and hoping …
Thursday, January 17, 2013
An off duty member of the Concord Police Department joined Wilmington police and firefighters in saving a man's life at Bruins practice on Thursday.
Terry Gardner was at Ristuccia Arena with a few of his friends to watch the Boston Bruins take the ice for practice. But he was hard at work before long. Gardner was among the group of on and off duty emergency personnel who saved the life of a man who had a cardiac episode in the stands on Thursday morning. Bruins players, who had just taken the ice in Wilmington, took a knee along the boards in front of the benches and watched as several professionally trained first responders rushed into the stands and used a defibrillator to shock the man back to consciousness. Gardner said he works for the Concord Police Department and Littleton Fire Department, though he was off duty when he came to Ristuccia to take in the practice session. He was …
A man had a seizure in the stands during Thursday's practice and was saved thanks to fast acting personnel on scene.
The stands at Ristuccia Arena were packed with fans planning on watching Boston Bruins practice on Thursday morning. But instead it was fans and players alike who were spectators as Wilmington firefighters and Bruins trainers saved the life of a man who had a seizure in the bleachers. Wilmington Fire Lieutenant John Brown was among those on scene. He said when crews arrived, police had revived the man using the Automated Emergency Defibrillator that hangs on the wall outside the Bruins locker room. Players, who had just taken the ice for the start of practice, remained on one knee on the ice along the far boards as first responders made their way towards the back of the bleachers and loaded the man onto a stretcher. Brown said the man, who…
Randy Ryder
3:15 pm on Thursday, January 17, 2013
I was there. The two gentlemen that revived this man are true heros. more ›