Former Red Wing Jiri Fischer Delivers Healthy Message to Plymouth-Canton Students
Fischer, Detroit Red Wings Assembly Team bring hockey and fitness lesson to Smith Elementary students.
A sea of red shirts flooded the Smith Elementary gymnasium in Plymouth on Thursday as former Detroit Red Wing Jiri Fischer and the Red Wings Assembly Team introduced students to the sport of hockey and encouraged an active and healthy lifestyle. The message of maintaining health hits home for Fischer, who survived his own health scare in 2005 when he suffered cardiac arrest and collapsed on the bench during a game against the Nashville Predators. The incident ended Fischer's playing career and he said he uses his experience to teach others to not take things for granted. "When anybody is a survivor of any life-threatening condition, from cardiac to cancer to other things, you look back at maybe what I could have done and what I didn't do…
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John McKay
1:26 am on Saturday, February 2, 2013
It was really fun to cover - lots of energy and the kids sure loved it. more ›