Tonya Harding ’08
In case you had any doubt that this year’s race is going to be bizarre to the very end, I give you, Campaign 2008 follies on ice. Here we have a professional goalie who night after night faces hard rubber discs flying at him at 100 mph, a rush of burly bodies crushing him against the ice, screaming metal blades whirring past him at all sides. Night after night he survives. And then, one glimpse at the curvy vice presidential hopeful and bam! He’s out.
Word is they’re reassembling the Warren Commission to find out exactly what happened here. Was it Sarah’s red carpet (sexual entendre unintended but happily accepted) and the carpet alone that felled this man? Or were there other forces at work as well, forces coming from the back and to the left. Back and to the left.
ST. LOUIS — Blues goalie Manny Legace left after one period Friday
night with a hip injury that occurred when he slipped on the carpet
placed on the ice for Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah
Palin. The Alaska governor dropped the ceremonial first puck before the
Blues hosted the Los Angeles Kings. A narrow carpet walkway was placed
from the gate at the Blues bench to center ice for Palin, her husband
and two of her daughters.
night with a hip injury that occurred when he slipped on the carpet
placed on the ice for Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah
Palin. The Alaska governor dropped the ceremonial first puck before the
Blues hosted the Los Angeles Kings. A narrow carpet walkway was placed
from the gate at the Blues bench to center ice for Palin, her husband
and two of her daughters.
Just before the ceremony, Legace was the first player onto the ice for
St. Louis. A team official pointed to the carpet. But Legace said the
official moved his own foot from the carpet just as Legace stepped down,
causing the carpet to slide.
Legace fell, then gingerly made his way to the crease.
After Legace’s mishap, the official rolled up enough of the carpet so
other players wouldn’t have to step on it.
Legace described the injury as a strained left hip flexor. He doesn’t
believe it is serious but said it is painful. He said he won’t play
Saturday when the Blues host Florida, but wasn’t sure if he’d miss any
additional games.
