Spike doesn't bend, he breaks

From The Daily News of Wednesday, March 12, 2008. . . .

For the first time in his WHL career, Greg (Spike) Wallace is on the disabled list.
Wallace, the Kamloops Blazers’ popular alumni and community liaison, has been sidelined since late Sunday morning when he fell and suffered a badly broken left ankle.
“I have a lower body injury that can be disclosed,” Wallace said with a rueful chuckle.
Wallace was at his folks’ home, helping to prepare for a team barbecue, when he slipped and fell.
“I was coming down an embankment,” he said Tuesday, “when I slipped and landed on my butt. I then went up and over in a somersault and I knew right away. I heard a pop.”
He ended up with, in his words, “a fractured fibula . . . a piece broken off the bottom of the tibia . . . a torn deltoid ligament, between the tibia and fibula . . . and all of the ligaments and tissue between those two bones are damaged from the ankle to the fracture.”
Wallace said he was injured at 11:45 a.m., and was on a Royal Inland Hospital operating table by 3:15 p.m. During the procedure, two screws were inserted into the joint.
He now is in a cast and on crutches. He will be re-examined in two weeks but is looking at spending the next six weeks on crutches.
“I just want to say that I found the paramedics and all the hospital staff to be extremely considerate, efficient and professional,” Wallace said, adding that the Blazers’ staff and players “have been most supportive and helpful. And I greatly appreciate everyone’s concern.”
He will be missing in action tonight as the Blazers entertain the Spokane Chiefs at Interior Savings Centre. Game time is 7 o’clock.
gdrinnan@kamloopsnews.ca