Bruins rookie has cancer-related surgery
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Bruins rookie center Phil Kessel underwent cancer surgery and is "on the road to recovery," his agent said Tuesday.
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Red Sox pitcher Jon Lester is returning to baseball after being told he had cancer during his rookie season.
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Alexander Ovechkin, the Team Russia winger and No. 1 overall draft pick of the Caps last June, suffered a shoulder injury while playing in the World Junior Hockey Championship title game.
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Glen Murray gets a new setup guy tomorrow, when Bruins training camp officially opens, but yesterday the veteran right winger's attention was on his new skates.
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Frantisek Kaberle, who scored the Stanley Cup-winning goal for the Carolina Hurricanes this year, had shoulder surgery Monday and could miss up to six months.
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Yesterday at 10:30 a.m., when he hit the TD Banknorth Garden ice sheet for the morning skate, Mark Stuart thought he might be playing in his first NHL game of the season later in the day.
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Last night was the first time Mike Mottau took the ice at Boston Garden as a professional hockey player, but it's not the first time the New Jersey Devils defenseman thought about it.
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When Thrashers captain Bobby Holik hooked down Milan Lucic at center ice with less than five minutes to play in a 3-3 game, the Bruins rookie didn't quit on the play.
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Chicago, IL (Sports Network) - Chicago Blackhawks forward Tuomo Ruutu will undergo surgery Friday to repair a subluxation of his left shoulder.
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Raef LaFrentz's torn left anterior cruciate ligament was surgically repaired in March 1999, ending his rookie year with the Denver Nuggets. Tendinitis and subsequent surgery on his right knee 14 months ago meant shutting it down for the remainder of his first season with the Celtics.
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One area in which the Bruins need serious improvement is special teams. The club, which begins the 2006-07 regular-season campaign Friday against the Panthers in Florida, is devoting a great deal of time to that in workouts this week leading up to the opener. Coach Dave Lewis said he's seriously considering left wing P.J. Axelsson at the point ...
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Greg Oden's rookie season with the Portland Trail Blazers ended before it started when the 7-footer had knee surgery Thursday.
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Darryl Sutter, who coached the Calgary Flames to the Stanley Cup finals last season, had an emergency appendectomy and was recovering Friday.
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The Red Sox announced yesterday that Jon Lester, 22, had been diagnosed with a rare form of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a blood cancer, and will begin treatment in the coming week.
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Wayne Primeau, officially not due back in town until Sept. 14 when all Bruins veterans must report to training camp, spent much of the past week participating in the club's informal workouts in Wilmington. At age 30, the hard-working Primeau is hardly a new face, but he did appear to have a renewed jump to his step during the morning ...
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The Red Sox announced yesterday that rookie lefthanded pitcher Jon Lester has cancer. It's a treatable form of anaplastic large cell lymphoma. The brief press release, delivered by the team at the request of Lester's family shortly before 6 p.m., said treatment will begin within a week.
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Well, yes, there are worse things than a lockout. In the midst of the NHL's self-imposed two-hander over the head (now day No. 66 on what appears the fast track to infinity), a couple of Bruins prospects turned their opportunity to play in Providence into their final days in the Boston organization.