His teammates noticed. “I had always planned on being home for the birth,” said Giguere, who married Kristen in the summer of 2003 after the Ducks’ last trip to the Stanley Cup Finals. “This was something the doctors said they hadn’t seen before,” Giguere said. It's not like I'm going to go out and get drunk if I don't play. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Both Giguere and Bryzgalov have learned to deal with the late notice. Giguere’s absence was discreetly described as a “personal issue” to the media. Jean-Sébastien Giguère (né le 16 mai 1977 à Montréal dans la province de Québec au Canada) est un joueur professionnel de hockey sur glace.. Carrière. Join Facebook to connect with Maxime Giguère and others you may know. and his wife Kristen are dealing with an issue of much greater importance than hockey games," Ducks GM Brian Burke said in a statement. Giguere … Giguere Jeannot. Maxime Olivier, born April 4, has a deformed right eye and there was some question whether he would be able to see with his left. ''The coach tells me to play, I play. But not so much because of hockey. Maxime-Olivier Giguère. Because the Gigueres knew they might have to relocate if Jean-Sebastien were to sign with another team, the couple hadn’t redecorated Maxime’s first bedroom. “That was the longest 45 minutes of my life,” said Giguere, who sat beside his wife in a waiting room, hands clutched, prayers whispered. Il est comme un père loin de la maison pour moi. There had been no indication during Kristen’s pregnancy that anything might be amiss. I don't compete against Bryz and I want him to be successful when he plays. Il m’a donné plusieurs bons conseils; je m’estime vraiment chanceux de l’avoir comme mentor.», REGISTRE DES PUBLICITÉS ÉLECTORALES FÉDÉRALES. Not a subscriber? A thank-you for the teammates and their families who said they’ll be there if he needed anything and promised they’ll pray. Six days later, after a handful of victory parades and rallies, the Gigueres returned to UCLA for Maxime’s 3 1/2-hour eye surgery, a complex dissection of the vessels that clouded his closed eye. On June 6, the night of the 6-2 championship-clinching victory over Ottawa, Kristen brought Maxime onto the ice. Maxime-Olivier Giguère is on Facebook. Inscrivez-vous sur Facebook pour communiquer avec Maxime-Olivier Giguère et d’autres personnes que vous pouvez connaître. He hadn’t slept. Giguere, the 2003 Conn Smythe Trophy winner, reclaimed his starting role for the remainder of the postseason, playing the next 17 games and 1,058 minutes. GET BREAKING NEWS IN YOUR BROWSER. It was mostly for my son. He’s smiling all the time.”. For the next two nights, Giguere slept at the hospital in the bed beside his wife while doctors flashed lights in front of Maxime’s eyes. À 18 ans, tu veux avoir une vie privée. “Everyone in the room thought the same thing, but my wife — I guess a mother knows — was really worried and kept asking for a doctor to come look at it.”. “I wrote that he and his mother were healthy and doing fine,” Giguere recalled, not yet realizing that his newborn’s swollen-shut right eye wasn’t opening on its own. Sign up today to get the best features and analysis from the NHL and beyond. If I don't play [Friday], it's not going to be the end of the world, that's for sure. “The last months have been emotional as well as amazing,” Giguere, 30, said last week as he, wife Kristen and son Maxime prepared to fly to his childhood home just outside Montreal. That will never change.”. Maxime Blanchard. Or, contact our editors by emailing moderator@scng.com. ''We didn't take advantage,'' Parrish said. ANAHEIMThe past three months for Jean-Sebastien Giguere have delivered the times when he needed the caged hockey helmet to cover his tears and the thick pads to shield his heart. A thank-you for the hundreds of letters and cards he has received in the past two month from fans, including one from a youth hockey goalie in his hometown, blind in one eye, who wrote, “You can still do a lot of great things with one.”. Giguere and his wife, Kristen, had been worried that their newborn son might be blind. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Tension builds as high schools wait for state to decide if sports can return as scheduled, Chain Reaction, Anaheim’s all-ages concert venue, announces plans to close as supporters rally to save it, HOA Homefront: Who decides on the HOA colors? Sign in to like videos, comment, and subscribe. He usually doesn't even tell the goalies themselves until the day of the game. “He is a big, healthy baby with great parents who are sensitive, wonderful people.”. GET BREAKING NEWS IN YOUR BROWSER. ANAHEIMDucks goaltender Jean-Sebastien Giguere arrived at Honda Center for Wednesday night’s Stanley Cup playoff opener against the Minnesota Wild with a renewed sense of hope about the health of his infant son. Known for his quick reaction time on the ice, Giguere called their doctor, packed some bags and drove to Saddleback Memorial Medical Center in Laguna Hills. “Personally, I don’t want Jiggy to have any bad thing happen to him — he’s such a quality guy,” Allaire said. Join Facebook to connect with Maxime Olivier and others you may know. Maxime Olivier, born April 4, has a deformed right eye and there was some question whether he would be able to see with his left. (A neighbor hates mine), Where to eat in Orange County in 2020: A guide to the best places, How The Blind Pig got national publicity — it was a case of mistaken identity, Angels’ Griffin Canning wins Gold Glove for work on the mound, Rams midseason grades: Improvement needed to reach playoffs, How music built USC’s Olaijah Griffin into the football player he is today, USC football positional breakdown: receivers and tight ends. It was a generous act recalled not by Giguere but by a stranger. Sign in to like videos, comment, and subscribe. “She’s been amazing through all this,” Giguere said. He’ll be able to do whatever he wants to do in his life, and that’s all we can ask.”. I compete against the puck. There was a question about his left eye, as well. “At that point, we didn’t know whether he would be able to see at all. Because of Giguere family situation, Ducks coach Randy Carlyle decided to start backup Ilya Bryzgalov in Wednesday's game, saying Giguere had been on an emotional roller-coaster and could use the time to ''get his feet underneath him.''. He even did something he hadn’t done much before: He prayed. With the help of club owners Susan and Henry Samueli, Giguere and his wife have been able to consult top-notch doctors, one of whom told them that baby Maxime Olivier … © 2020 The Hockey News, Roustan Media Ltd. Giguere was given time off from practice to be with his family last week and did not make the team's trip to close out the regular season. A thank-you for the food, flowers and gifts from neighbors, including one who made the Stanley Cup-T-shirt-clad teddy bear that now rests in Maxime’s room. Then, at 12:20 a.m. April 4, he watched Maxime Olivier Giguere — all 6 pounds, 8 ounces and 21 1/2 inches of him — wiggle into life. Saying that, there’s always a job to be done. Burke, a father of six children, phoned Giguere for updates and told him: “The only thing that matters now is your family. ''It was a great relief,'' said Giguere, sitting in front of his locker after practice Thursday. ANAHEIM – Ducks goaltender Jean-Sebastien Giguere this morning reported good news regarding the health of his infant son, Maxime Olivier, born April 4. But the team knew the whole story, and owners Henry and Susan Samueli, who have prominent UCLA connections, worked the phones to help the Gigueres get the first appointment with the world-renowned vision specialists at UCLA’s Jules Stein Eye Institute: 8 a.m. on Monday, April 9. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. That was great news for my son. More scans. Join Facebook to connect with Maxime-Olivier Giguère and others you may know. “The Cup is special. For days Giguere hadn’t thought of hockey. Then, at 12:20 a.m. April 4, he watched Maxime Olivier Giguere — all 6 pounds, 8 ounces and 21 1/2 inches of him — wiggle into life. The Wild, who allowed the fewest goals (191) in the NHL this season, played well on defence and got outstanding goaltending from Niklas Backstrom, but couldn't generate much offence in the opening loss. The day of the June 12 surgery, several Ducks made a surprise visit to the hospital with the Stanley Cup. Maxime Olivier is on Facebook. At his next practice during the second week of April, Giguere was back to being “my normal self,” he said, talking and laughing, working himself back into shape and into the focus he would need to lead the Ducks toward the Stanley Cup. The left, bright blue and open, slowly followed the brightness, much less the waving hands and big-clown smiles of his rookie parents. “My son was born with a deformed eye, his right eye,” Giguere said. He cried out of joy for what his life has taught him since the morning of April 3. Bryzgalov, who filled in capably in the postseason last year when Giguere was injured, was solid in the opener, stopping 24 shots in the Ducks' 2-1 victory. On April 17, with nine minutes left in Game 4 of a Western Conference quarterfinal loss to Minnesota, Giguere skated and crouched in front of the net in a game for the first time since March 31, stopping all four shots he faced. “It was a real tough week, not knowing what was going to happen,” Giguere said. ANAHEIMDucks goaltender Jean-Sebastien Giguere arrived at Honda Center for Wednesday night’s Stanley Cup playoff opener against the Minnesota Wild with a … “It was a real tough week, not knowing what was going to happen. Although we do not pre-screen comments, we reserve the right at all times to remove any information or materials that are unlawful, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane, indecent or otherwise objectionable to us, and to disclose any information necessary to satisfy the law, regulation, or government request. He didn’t speak much in the dressing room. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. In effect, the Avalanche rookie is becoming the fourth Giguere kid, joining Maxime-Olivier, 6; Luka, 4; and Felix, 1. CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices. Contact the writer: masmith@ocregister.com. «Giggy est incroyable avec moi, a-t-il affirmé. “I’m pretty confident that moving on, I’ll be able to do that. Il s’amuse avec mes trois garçons. '', Giguere, who had three shutouts when the Ducks swept the Wild in the 2003 Western Conference finals, added, ''If Bryz gets on a roll, I'm going to be the first one to cheer him on. On the third day of their son’s life, the Gigueres left the hospital and carried Maxime into the nautical-themed nursery left behind by their home’s previous owners. He may have some challenges in front of him, but not even close to what it would be if both his eyes were bad.''. He celebrated what life has shown him about having supportive friends and teammates, having access to gifted doctors and mostly about being a caring husband and a nurturing first-time father to a child who, at birth, could barely see half his world. Said Giguere: ''You can't play them all. Giguere, 29, missed the Ducks’ final three regular-season games after Maxime’s birth. More tests. Nurses took the infant out of his mother’s arms for two days of tests and brain scans, each one bringing a new wave of worry to the Gigueres. “That will never change. Concern about Maxime’s right eye arose quickly after Kristen gave birth to the couple’s first child April 4, and intensified after doctors discovered potential problems with the left eye.
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