I was asked to forward this to the list by the former kap@apollo
    (Steve Kapetanakis), who is in the process of getting back onto the
    list from his new account at Northeastern.  Kap is from Nashua, NH
    which is right next to Manchester (I'm from Salem, NH, about 20 min.
    east of both towns), so this hit all the papers around here.  I
    didn't know what to say when I heard it.
 
 
    - mike
 
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 I know this isn't directly related to College Hockey, but...
 
 Last Saturday night, while most of us were watching the Northern
 Michigan/Boston Univ. game there was another championship game
 being played.  In Manchester, NH the Youth Hockey Bantam League
 championship game was played.  In that game, 15-year-old Kevin
 Charbonneau was fatally injured as he slid into a slapshot
 fired from just 5 feet away.  An autopsy showed that the puck
 bruised Charbonneau's heart, caused it to beat irregularly and
 set off a heart attack.  The puck struck him directly in the
 heart.  When the coaches got to him on the ice, he was concious
 and was complaining that he couldn't catch his breath.
 Charbonneau was pronounced DOA at Manchester's Catholic Medical
 Center.
 
 Hearing something like this just made me stop and realize how
 quickly our lives can change.