My wife's getting a lot more of me then she's used to. "I've never missed more than nine games in a season, so this has been a very awkward time. McCleary never played again, but Lindsay plans a comeback even if Atlanta doesn't pick up the option on his contract. Lindsay will fly to Atlanta today to be examined by Thrashers doctors, but they won't allow him to play again this season because even though the hole has closed, the larynx is not yet stable. So the claim was rescinded and Lindsay is still property of the Thrashers, who host the Panthers tonight. Washington claimed Lindsay, who scored the most famous goal in Panthers' history during the team's 1996 run to the Stanley Cup Finals, off waivers last week, but the Capitals were not aware of how serious his injuries were. Just to realize I could have flown that night, it's made me real appreciative." "It's the scariest thing that's ever happened to me in hockey. "What are the odds that it would happen in the same building with the same doctors that saved McCleary's life? Dr. The only NHL player to die from an injury in a game was Bill Masterton, whose head struck the ice in 1968. To think now of how close I came to dying, it's scary to think about." "I went through a lot of panic attacks after I came out of surgery," Lindsay said. Having a hole in his throat and not being unable to talk for almost a week affected Lindsay as much emotionally as physically.
4 and spent two weeks in the hospital with his wife, Kari, at his side. If I was on that plane, the only way I could have been saved is if they stuck a knife in my throat and gave me some sort of emergency tracheotomy, which obviously would have been highly problematic in the air." "I think a lot of doctors around the league probably would have let me fly home. In other words, if Lindsay had gotten on the plane, he probably would have died.