Sciamachy
Shadow Coyote
- Jan 31, 2008
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His youngest daughter, 8-year-old Karys, suffered a dog bite to her face. She required three hours of surgery as doctors performed bone and cartilage reconstruction.
After the accident, Doan felt the urge to become a full-time dad to his four children and contemplated leaving the game.
“This changed everything for me, and I wasn’t interested in thinking about making any decisions for the next little while,†Doan said.
Doan kept busy during the 113-day lockout by participating in labor negotiations with the league.
He didn’t have to take on this responsibility. Doan isn’t the team’s player representative, but he attended the meetings to be able to better communicate the status of talks to his teammates.
And once a deal was tentatively reached, Doan’s role in that final 16-hour bargaining marathon was believed to instigate a resolution.
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Because of his involvement in meetings, Doan wasn’t able to skate and prepare for the season as much as he would have liked. And yet he’s played in every single game this season for the Coyotes and currently leads the team with 13 goals, ranking second in points with 24.
