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Found September 19, 2009 on Kuklas Korner:
PLAYERS: Jason Chimera,  Eric Belanger,  Fredrik Modin
TEAMS: Columbus Blue Jackets,  Minnesota Wild

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We are two games into the preseason now, and with a game tonight against the dreaded Predators.  It’s time for another update.  The Jackets lost the first two preseason games, the first a 5-4 OT loss to the Penguins, the second, last night a 2-0 loss to the Wild.  The scariest news out of last night, was that Jason Chimera, was carried off on a stretcher after a hit from Eric Belanger (of course don’t forget that Chimera gave the crowd 2 thumbs up as he left).  The quote that shook me the second I read it was from Fredrik Modin:
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Chimera Feels Belanger Should Be Suspended

Via Kuklas Korner  |  September 21, 2009
from Tom Reed of Puck-rakers, Jason Chimera does not care that Eric Belanger’s rap sheet had been clean before Friday night’s hit from behind that sent the Blue Jackets winger off the ice on a stretcher. He believes Belanger’s check was dirty and that it merits a suspension. Chimera returned to Columbus on Saturday after he was held overnight in a St. Paul. Minn...

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Via Wild Puck Banter  |  September 21, 2009
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Via Miami Herald  |  September 18, 2009
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Via Miami Herald  |  September 18, 2009
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