Former Maple Leafs player dies following head injury in charity game

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  • Don Cherry
    BFZ Hockey Commissioner
    • Oct 2002
    • 877
    #1

    Former Maple Leafs player dies following head injury in charity game

    Dec 10, 2002




    TORONTO (AP) -- Les Costello, the former Toronto Maple Leafs player who left the NHL to become a priest, died Tuesday after being injured during a charity hockey game. He was 74.

    Costello was admitted to Toronto's St. Michael's Hospital last week after sustaining a head injury during a Flying Fathers game in Waterloo, Ontario. Costello sat out the team's game the following night and said he wasn't feeling well.

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  • Sabre Ally
    Registered User
    • Jul 2002
    • 11682
    #2
    How weird. You'd think he'd know enough to wear a helmet.

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    • BillC
      The man in charge - Don't U forget it!
      • Jul 2002
      • 1737
      #3
      Where did it say he wasn't wearing the helmet?

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      • Jaded 7
        Saving the World One Signature at a Time!
        • Jul 2002
        • 22477
        #4
        Gosh, that's awful. It's amazing that there are men who have regular lives for a good part of their lives and then decide, later in life, to become priests. That's kind of a cool thing for priests to do to raise money for charities. I'm sure he's with God now.


        There's not a stone in my heart I've left unturned
        Not a piece of my soul that I ain't searched
        The only answer I found for all this hurt
        Is there ain't not answer here on earth

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        • Sabre Ally
          Registered User
          • Jul 2002
          • 11682
          #5
          Originally posted by BillC
          Where did it say he wasn't wearing the helmet?
          Oh, it was in the Yahoo story

          Costello was admitted to Toronto's St. Michael's Hospital last week after sustaining a head injury during a Flying Fathers game.
          He was injured when a puck got caught in his skates during the pregame warmups, causing him to fall backward and hit his head on the ice. Costello was not wearing a helmet.

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          • Earthquake Enyart
            Legendary Zoner
            • Jul 2002
            • 27521
            #6
            A Flying Father's game???

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            • northernbillfan
              Hello, I'm Mike and I'm a Bills fan.

              Administrator Emeritus
              • Jul 2002
              • 27551
              #7
              They were taking on the Flying Nuns, but couldn't score...because...well they are nuns!
              When I die, please don't let my wife sell my camera equipment for what I told her I paid for it.


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              • BironsGirl43
                Can suck a golf-ball through a garden-hose.
                • Oct 2002
                • 2198
                #8
                Awww poor guy! My condolenses go out to his family...
                ~*Let's go Buffalo*~

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                • BigDoug
                  1-800-SAD-GOAT
                  • Jul 2002
                  • 17319
                  #9
                  Wow, that's really spooky...

                  The Flying Fathers were here in North Bay last winter and my daughter's (tyke, 5 & 6 yr old) hockey team actually played @ 3 minutes against them as part of the charity game, so I was on the Father's bench for 2 of 3 periods.

                  I remember Father Costello specifically from that game, as he was probably one of the oldest hockey players I've ever seen strap 'em on. He played 1 or 2 shifts each period...a little shaky on the ice, but able to hold up well for a 73 yr old. The girls just loved him, as he entertained them on the bench.

                  My condolences to his family...

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                  • ticatfan
                    The Meathead of Muslims!
                    • Jul 2002
                    • 31074
                    #10
                    They played here many times,I have met him a few times,a really nice man.A lad from here plays on the flying fathers.
                    Political correctness ( or cancel culture as it is called today) is a doctrine fostered by a delusional ,illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by MSM which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.
                    Harry S Truman 1941.

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