Marc Savard May Not Play Hockey Again

There’s some very troubling news out of Boston today, as Bruins GM Peter Chiarelli told the Boston Globe that centre Marc Savard won’t play at all this coming season and could very well never play again.

Savard’s been suffering from postconcussion issues ever since taking a devastating blindside hit from Matt Cooke on March 7, 2010. He’s played only 32 games in the year and a half since that point and wasn’t even able to take part in the Bruins’ Stanley Cup celebration when they won it in Vancouver in June.

“Marc Savard won’t play this year,” Chiarelli said. “Nothing has changed in our monitoring. He’ll be examined and he’ll be declared unfit to play.”