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NOVEMBER 28, 2014
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Firefighters save life of hockey teammate ‘The surgeon said if I didn’t have these guys, I wouldn’t have made it.’ Tyler OLSEN
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he last thing Lindsay Hickmott remembers from his Nov. 9 hockey game is sitting on the bench, getting ready to take his next shift. His next memory is waking up in an ambulance, struggling to breathe and wondering what, exactly, had happened. Less than three weeks later, Hickmott stood in Abbotsford Fire Rescue Service’s Hall 1 with two teammates, shaking the hand of the fire chief and hearing – not for the first time – the story of how he survived to skate again. TTT Hickmott and his Fraser Valley Cresting Wings were hoping to turn around a losing skid when they stepped onto the Centre Ice surface at 6:30 p.m. to face off against the Canex All-Scars. The game was still young, in the first period, when Hickmott took what would be his final shift. As the play headed up the ice, Hickmott skated by his own bench then, without warning, suddenly slumped to the ground. Teammate Ed Griffioen, who was on the bench, saw Hickmott try and hold himself up with his stick, then collapse. Griffioen thought Hickmott may have taken a hit in the corner. Continued on A4
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OPERATION RED NOSE A18 Annual designated-driver program gets underway this weekend
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85¢ Lindsay Hickmott (centre) holds an automatic external defibrillator identical to the one hockey teammates Ed Griffioen (left) TYLER OLSEN Abbotsford News and Kirk Holt used to restart his heart earlier this month.
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