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Battalion graduate suffers serious injury

October 26, 2005 - Ontario Hockey League (OHL)
North Bay Battalion News Release


BRAMPTON, Ont. - The Brampton Battalion is thinking this week of Sebastien Savage, a former right winger with the Ontario Hockey League club, after learning that he suffered a serious injury in a university game Saturday night.

Savage, 24, is reported to have suffered paralysis in his upper and lower extremities after a fall while playing for the Universite de Moncton Aigles Bleus of the Atlantic University Sport conference. Savage was injured when he crashed into the boards after chasing a puck into the corner with a defenceman for the visiting Acadia Axemen.

Savage, a product of St. Albert, Ont., who completed his overage season with the Battalion in 2001-02, is in the neurosurgical intensive care unit of The Moncton Hospital and is to be transferred to hospital in Ottawa, near his home, when his condition permits.

"Our thoughts are with Sebastien and his family at this difficult time," Battalion owner Scott Abbott said Tuesday. "He was a valued member of our team in his time here and was highly thought of by all who knew him."

The Battalion acquired Savage from the Ottawa 67's in a Nov. 7, 2001, trade for left winger Jonah Leroux and a sixth-round pick in the 2002 OHL Priority Selection. Savage played 51 games for the Troops, scoring 17 goals and earning 11 assists for 28 points.

Savage was chosen by the Mississauga IceDogs in the second round, 22nd overall, of the 1998 OHL Priority Selection from the Hawkesbury Hawks of the Central Junior A Hockey League and played his rookie season of 1998-99 with the IceDogs, the Battalion's expansion cousins that year.

He was traded to the Sudbury Wolves early in 1999-00 before joining Ottawa in 2000-01. The 67's won the OHL championship and played in the Memorial Cup tournament at Regina.

Savage finished his OHL career with 49 goals and 59 assists for 108 points in 219 games. He had five goals and seven assists for 12 points in 32 playoff games with Sudbury and Ottawa.

After four games with the Lasalle Rapides of the Quebec Semi-Pro Hockey League in 2002-03, Savage was in his third season with Moncton. He scored four goals and added three assists for seven points in 12 games in 2003-04 and had four goals and eight assists for 12 points last season. He scored one goal in four games this season.

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