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Former Oilers Defenseman Reveals He Nearly Died While With the Team

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Aaron
August 19, 2023  (8:46 PM)
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Sheldon Souray, who played 15 years in the NHL, was with the Edmonton Oilers for two years. Even though he continued to play for another five years, his time in Alberta almost marked the end of his career.

Souray Nearly Died

In a recent interview, the retired NHL player Sheldon Souray disclosed a harrowing experience during his stint with the Edmonton Oilers.

He suffered from a severe bone and blood infection that almost claimed his life. Additionally, he mentioned that the Oilers management had suspicions, wrongly believing he might be pretending to be ill to avoid playing for the team.

Now I'm in the ICU for four days. Holy moly. I got a bone and a blood infection, and they're talking about amputating my hand. They have to recut my hand open. They cut from my middle finger down to about here to end of my palm on both sides. They got to splint it well, now I can't move it, but they splint it back open, and it's just oozing pus.

And I'm on all sorts of antibiotics that they give cancer patients, like, dude, it was bad. But the team's on the road, right? The team's on the road now, and so I hadn't had a chance to even call the trainer and really explain what was up and all that kind of stuff, so I don't completely blame it on them.

But my buddy comes in one day, and he was our strength coach, and he said, how are you doing? Well, I'm in the ICU now, right? I am hooked up to all this stuff. They had to put a PIC line into my bicep and go on my heart, and they just dropped antibiotics on my heart so I didn't die, I said.

I asked a nurse what are they going to do, cut my hand off? And she goes, oh, honey, we're not even worried about that. We're worried about this getting to your heart. And at that moment, I put my head back on the pillow, and I was like, man, this is serious.

So the strength coach comes in and he says, how are you doing? I said I've been better. And he said, have you told the coaches? Or the management? Said, yeah. He says they think that you're milking an injury because you don't want to play for the Oilers again.

I said, okay. So I picked up the phone. Now, you got to understand, I'm on all these painkillers. I'm on these antibiotics. I'm sitting in the hospital, and I left Kevin Lowe and Daryl Cates, a message, a voicemail. I wasn't happy.

This is truly one of the craziest hockey stories in recent history. Thankfully Souray was ok, and went on to finish his career in California.

As Read on House of Hockey - Defenseman Reveals He Nearly Died While Playing for the Oilers

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