The flying W.
Maggie Herger, 16, couldn’t have been prouder to don a Vancouver Canucks shirt to root for her beloved hockey team against the Sharks in San Jose. Four years earlier in her native Canada, after undergoing surgery to remove a brain tumor, a hospital visit from Canucks players raised her spirits and helped her recover.
At Wednesday’s game, however, the high school junior suffered another frightening brain trauma. Maggie said she suffered a concussion after a drunken Sharks fan who had been harassing her smacked her in the head.
As paramedics loaded her into an ambulance at HP Pavilion, Maggie said, another Sharks fan noticed the girl’s Canucks jersey and yelled at her to “suck it up.”
“I just wanted to cry,” Maggie said from her Discovery Bay home Thursday, hours after being released from the hospital. “Who does that?”




