Pascal Dupuis had returned to the Penguins from major knee surgery for this season. — GETTY IMAGES
DEJAN KOVACEVIC, DK ON PITTSBURGH SPORTS
Pascal Dupuis has been diagnosed with a blood clot in his lung, the Penguins just announced at a press conference at Consol Energy Center. He will miss at least six months while undergoing treatment with blood thinners.
The clot was detected Monday through testing after Dupuis had complained of chest pain. Dr. Dharmesh Vyas, the team physician, said the clot traveled from the leg to the lung and was the second known such incident for Dupuis. The other, not previously made public, happened in January of this year while Dupuis was recovering from major knee surgery.
Dr. Vyas called it ‘extremely important’ that it was found when it was and would not speculate as to whether or not this was career-threatening.
“Hockey’s definitely second in my mind right now,” Dupuis said. “I’m thinking about my family.”
Dupuis and his wife, Carole-Lyne, have four children.
Views: Godspeed to one of the best men I know.
This obviously creates a glaring need for the roster, as well as other elements related to the cap and line changes and team leadership and all. It also might very well be the end. Blood clots eventually ended Tomas Vokoun’s career, also on our watch. Dupuis is 35, and his game is built on speed and now a reconstructed knee. That’s going to be a monstrous challenge, even for someone of his will.
But I’ll save elaborating on all that for some other time. The infinitely bigger issue, to state what should be obvious, is the man’s health. As it seems is being written all too often of late, these professional athletes risk serious injury and health on a daily basis, but they’re also amazingly fortunate to be around some of the world’s most advanced medicine. He’s lucky this was found. He should — and from the sound of it, does — consider himself blessed.
Dupuis is all about family. Here’s a column I wrote for the Trib last October about Dupuis. His wife steals the show.
Let me offer this, too, regarding the Penguins being some starcrossed franchise as it relates to health: That’s the truth. But it’s also coincidence. It’s wild coincidence. And thus, it’s completely immaterial. It’s the stuff of narrative. And if you really cut through it, it’s pouting over hockey as opposed to thinking of the humans involved.
Dupuis deserves a lot better than that.
Here, if you missed it, is the entire press conference:
November 19, 2014
News/views: Dupuis out with lung blood clot
by Dejan Kovacevic • Columns • Penguins
Pascal Dupuis had returned to the Penguins from major knee surgery for this season. — GETTY IMAGES
DEJAN KOVACEVIC, DK ON PITTSBURGH SPORTS
Pascal Dupuis has been diagnosed with a blood clot in his lung, the Penguins just announced at a press conference at Consol Energy Center. He will miss at least six months while undergoing treatment with blood thinners.
The clot was detected Monday through testing after Dupuis had complained of chest pain. Dr. Dharmesh Vyas, the team physician, said the clot traveled from the leg to the lung and was the second known such incident for Dupuis. The other, not previously made public, happened in January of this year while Dupuis was recovering from major knee surgery.
Dr. Vyas called it ‘extremely important’ that it was found when it was and would not speculate as to whether or not this was career-threatening.
“Hockey’s definitely second in my mind right now,” Dupuis said. “I’m thinking about my family.”
Dupuis and his wife, Carole-Lyne, have four children.
Views: Godspeed to one of the best men I know.
This obviously creates a glaring need for the roster, as well as other elements related to the cap and line changes and team leadership and all. It also might very well be the end. Blood clots eventually ended Tomas Vokoun’s career, also on our watch. Dupuis is 35, and his game is built on speed and now a reconstructed knee. That’s going to be a monstrous challenge, even for someone of his will.
But I’ll save elaborating on all that for some other time. The infinitely bigger issue, to state what should be obvious, is the man’s health. As it seems is being written all too often of late, these professional athletes risk serious injury and health on a daily basis, but they’re also amazingly fortunate to be around some of the world’s most advanced medicine. He’s lucky this was found. He should — and from the sound of it, does — consider himself blessed.
Dupuis is all about family. Here’s a column I wrote for the Trib last October about Dupuis. His wife steals the show.
Let me offer this, too, regarding the Penguins being some starcrossed franchise as it relates to health: That’s the truth. But it’s also coincidence. It’s wild coincidence. And thus, it’s completely immaterial. It’s the stuff of narrative. And if you really cut through it, it’s pouting over hockey as opposed to thinking of the humans involved.
Dupuis deserves a lot better than that.
Here, if you missed it, is the entire press conference: