Word: chucked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...young boy in Atlanta, Chuck Fletcher used to spend Saturdays at work with his father. But Cliff Fletcher didn't work in an ordinary office building, he didn't run a bank or a store...
...Chuck grew up as a child of the NHL. First in Atlanta, and later, after the team moved in 1980, in Calgary. The equipment men, the assistant coaches, the players--they were all used to seeing Chuck around. When he was younger, he would practice on the ice with the team, visit them in the dressing room, collect autographs. Later, he was around so often he got to know many of the players personally...
...Chuck was never really cut out to be a professional hockey player. The day of his first game, when he was five years old and living in Atlanta, his mother sent him off to the rink wearing a football helmet. Cliff was out of town, and she didn't know any better. As Chuck himself jokes, "It was all downhill from there...
...turning point came sophomore year. Chuck became bigger and stronger, a little faster, a bit smoother with the puck. None of those things were enough. This was the winter of 1986, when even John Murphy and Scott McCormack--both first-liners this season and owners of NCAA championship rings--were relegated to the JV level. Coach Bill Cleary was drowning in talent--and Chuck Fletcher wasn't even on his list...
...Highland General Hospital in Oakland, Chuck Nacke found a horrific scene. Both trauma rooms were full for several hours. One doctor, soaked with sweat, massaged the hearts of two patients and later almost climbed onto the chest of a third in an attempt to restart his heartbeat. In the parking area outside, a car pulled up, a door opened and an inert body was dropped off. As the car drove away, nurses hurriedly wheeled the abandoned person inside, where he was treated. Staff members, says Nacke, are "stretched to the limit 24 hours...