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De La Rose On Road To Recovery

April 18, 2019, 8:35 PM ET [10 Comments]
Bob Duff
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Detroit Red Wings forward Jacob De La Rose recently underwent a surgical procedure to repair the cause of the accelerated heart rate that took him out of action twice during the 2018-19 NHL season.

The procedure he underwent is called a cardiac ablation. It is designed to scar or destroy tissue in the heart that is allowing incorrect electrical signals to cause an abnormal heart rhythm. Diagnostic catheters are threaded through blood vessels to the heart, where they are used to map the heart’s electrical signals.

The surgery will put a delay on De La Rose’s offseason conditioning program but the hope is that this will put the problem in the rear-view mirror and allow the 23-year-old Swede to move forward with his NHL career without concern of a relapse.

“I know he’s got to be on blood thinners for about three months,” Red Wings GM Ken Holland said. “But he did have surgery, it all went good.

“He expects to be A-OK, and off blood thinners by middle of July. It gives him a good chance to have a good July. He’s been green lighted to go train, he can train. Certainly when you’re on blood thinners, you can’t do anything to run the risk of getting cut. But he’s had the surgery.”

USA Worlds
A pair of Red Wings booked passage to the world championship on Thursday.

Team USA was the first country to official reveal a partial lineup for the 2019 IIHF Men's World Championship, which begins for the Americans on May 10 against host Slovakia. Among the 17 players announced were Red Wings forwards Dylan Larkin and Luke Glendening.

Larkin has pulled on the Team USA sweater in under-17, under-18 and under-20 competition. It will be the fourth successive appearance for Larkin in the world championship. He’s accumulated 7-22-29 totals in 38 games over that span.

Glendening has never before worn the Team USA jersey in international hockey.

Where It All Started
The Red Wings and St. Louis Blues are slated to clash in the 2019 Kraft Hockeyville NHL preseason game on Sept. 26 at the Calumet Colosseum. There’s a symmetry to the Wings playing a game in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, because that’s where pro hockey gained its first foothold. The International League was born there in 1904, with Michigan-based teams in Houghton, Calumet and Sault Ste. Marie.

The mining boom led to a wealth of riches available and it was used to construct arenas and lure the best hockey players in the world to the area, Hall of Famers like Cyclone Taylor, Newsy Lalonde and Joe Hall.

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