According to the Ann Arbor News today Michigan has lost freshman forward Sean Ritchlin for the rest of year. During Saturday's game against OSU Ritchlin suffered what was believed to be a deep thigh bruise. The swelling in his thigh worsened during the night and he was rushed to emergency surgery to relieve the pressure from what was diagnosed as compartment syndrome. Doctors say that this is the first case they have ever seen in a hockey player. (If I recall correctly this is the same injury that ended the season for Steve Morrison, a linebacker at Michigan a few years ago.) Ritchlin has been in ICU since Sunday because they were concerned about the incision becoming infected as it runs from his hip to his knee. On the brighter side of things coach Red Berenson said that Brendan Morrison will play this weekend and that he hopes to have freshman forward Justin Clark, whose been out with a knee injury, back in time to play ND at the Palace on the 16th. ____________________________________________________________________________ Bradley F. Carlson MMMM MMMM E-mail: [log in to unmask] University of Michigan MMMM MMMM Laboratory: 2018 SPH I School of Public Health MMMMM MMMMM Phone: (313) 747-2404 Department of Epidemiology MMM MMMM MMM Fax: (313) 764-3192 MMM MM MMM Michigan Hockey Band - Bones MMM MMM MMMM MMMM ____________________________________________________________________________ HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.