VANCOUVER - Derek Dorsett said the hardest part of accepting his NHL career has ended because of a neck injury was seeing his Vancouver Canucks teammates take the ice without him.
Dorsett, a forward in the League for 10 seasons, thought he had a handle on the emotions of being told last week that bulging disks above and below where he had cervical spine fusion surgery last December made it too dangerous to continue playing. But when he watched the Canucks hit the ice before honoring forward Daniel Sedin on Thursday for reaching 1,000 NHL points, Dorsett struggled to keep those emotions in check.
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