Bruins Players Call Rink Rescuers 'Real Heroes' [VIDEO]
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 …
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Randy Ryder
3:15 pm on Thursday, January 17, 2013
I was there. The two gentlemen that revived this man are true heros. more ›