Enjoyable is not a word Chucko would use to describe his 2009-10 season with the Abbotsford Heat of the American Hockey League, the Flames’ top farm team. Excruciating is more like it, thanks to a four-month hangover from a hit in a Dec. 29 game against the Manitoba Moose. The play looked relatively harmless, but he suffered whiplash and torn neck ligaments in the collision and so the fog of post-concussion syndrome descended on Chucko. “It’s as bad as everyone says it is,” Chucko says. “No light. No sound. No TV. No reading. I basically sat in a dark room for a couple weeks.” After a couple of weeks, Chucko ventured to a sushi restaurant for a glimpse of the outside world. The assault on the senses was unrelenting. “The noise set me off again,” he says “I just sat down and there was noise everywhere. In front of you. Behind you. I just couldn’t deal with it.” ...
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