|
|
| 14th November, 2007 - 8:59 am |  News Observer - Carolina Hurricanes winger Erik Cole had further medical tests Tuesday to help determine the extent of a neck injury he suffered crashing headfirst into Florida Panthers goaltender Tomas Vokoun on Monday night.
Cole left the game on a stretcher with his head and neck immobilized, but doctors at the Cleveland Clinic in Weston, Fla., cleared him to fly with the team to Tampa late Monday after a CT scan was negative. Less than two years removed from suffering a fractured vertebra in his neck after Pittsburgh defenseman Brooks Orpik ran him into the boards, however, Cole is unlikely to play tonight against the Lightning or later this weekend. Team doctors in the Triangle must review the test results fully and give him a clean bill of health.
"We want to take every ounce of prevention and caution," Carolina head athletics trainer Pete Friesen said.
Cole underwent an MRI test in Tampa on Tuesday before heading to the St. Pete Times Forum to meet briefly with coach Peter Laviolette at the tail end of the team's practice. [READ] |
|
|
Get Carolina Tickets
