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Monday, February 28, 2000
Brashear remembers little
VANCOUVER (CP) -- One week after being felled by Marty McSorley's stick, Donald Brashear said Monday he remembered nothing about the incident."If you watch the tape, you can see I was out before I fell on the ice," the Vancouver Canucks tough guy told a news conference.
Asked whether he recalled taunting the Boston bench prior to the incident, Brashear said: "There's not much I remember.
"But I remember that was a game that I had to play hard, where I was just doing my job. I remember we got into a fight right off the start. Those are all things that I have to do during a game.
"In a game you try to make people lose their focus by any different way. Certainly not be hitting someone in the head with your stick."
He said he remembers waking up, but isn't sure where.
The six-foot-two, 225-pound Canucks forward was diagnosed with a Grade 3 concussion. Expected to be out a minimum of three weeks, he still suffers daily headaches.
McSorley, who has apologized profusely for the incident, was suspended for the rest of the regular season (23 games) and the playofffs. He also has to meet with commissioner Gary Bettman before he is reinstated.
"Basically, right now how I feel (is) I'm just happy that I can walk right now and be on my feet and see my four-month-old son, and keep living," he said. "But I'm not going to feel as good as when I'm going to be able to put my skates back on, give a hit or take a hit or get into a fight for my teammates.
"I'm not going to change the way I play the game in any way."
Brashear said McSorley telephoned him but he wasn't present to receive the call.
"Sometimes I wonder what went through his mind to do a thing like that," Brashear said.
He had little to say about the police investigation into the incident.
"I'm not really concerned with that," he said. "That's not something I care about, that I think about every day.
"What I think about the most is getting healthy and getting back in my skates."
Brashear, switching between English and French, also thanked hospital personnel and hockey fans for their messages of support.
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