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Atkinson makes emotional debut for Catamounts

By Chris Preston
Special to ESPN.com

Thursday, January 31, 2008

BURLINGTON, Vt. -- "A baloney slice away from death." That's how Chris Atkinson's high school hockey coach, John Hynes, described the near-fatal, on-ice injury his star player suffered on Feb. 25, 2006. Anyone who witnessed the gruesome nature of what happened to Atkinson that night knows Hynes' words are not exaggerated. Not if they saw the pool of blood that soaked through Atkinson's white U.S. Under-18 National Development hockey team jersey. Nor the immediacy in which Atkinson was whiske ...

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