Borje Salming

2022 - 10 - 18

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Former Leafs star Börje Salming and family share details of his ... (Yahoo Canada Sports)

Former Toronto Maple Leafs defenceman Börje Salming recently spoke to a Swedish newspaper about his struggle with ALS after he was diagnosed in July.

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Maladie de Lou Gehrig: l'ancien des Maple Leafs, Borje Salming ... (Le Journal de Québec)

Borje Salming subit les ravages de la sclérose latérale amyotrophique. L'ancienne vedette des Maple Leafs a maintenant perdu la parole.

La maladie est incurable, même si certains médicaments peuvent ralentir sa progression. Résultat: le colis est coincé aux douanes. Le membre du Temple de la renommée a révélé au mois d’août qu’il souffrait de la maladie de Lou Gehrig, et quelques mois plus tard, celle-ci s’est attaquée à la gorge, de sorte qu’il ne peut plus parler ni se nourrir par voie naturelle.

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Maladie de Lou Gehrig : Borje Salming perd la parole - TVA Sports (TVA Sports)

Borje Salming subit les ravages de la sclérose latérale amyotrophique. L'ancienne vedette des Maple Leafs a maintenant perdu la parole.

Résultat: le colis est coincé aux douanes. La maladie est incurable, même si certains médicaments peuvent ralentir sa progression. - À LIRE AUSSI:

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Maladie de Lou Gehrig: l'ancien des Maple Leafs, Borje Salming ... (Le Journal de Montréal)

Borje Salming subit les ravages de la sclérose latérale amyotrophique. L'ancienne vedette des Maple Leafs a maintenant perdu la parole.

La maladie est incurable, même si certains médicaments peuvent ralentir sa progression. Résultat: le colis est coincé aux douanes. Le membre du Temple de la renommée a révélé au mois d’août qu’il souffrait de la maladie de Lou Gehrig, et quelques mois plus tard, celle-ci s’est attaquée à la gorge, de sorte qu’il ne peut plus parler ni se nourrir par voie naturelle.

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Maple Leaf legend Borje Salming: forever a warrior (Maple Leafs Hot Stove)

It's always good to read and hear about former Maple Leafs that we loved, admired, and respected when the news is uplifting. But it's much more difficult ...

(The other “jump out of your chair” Leaf moment for fans in that decade was McDonald’s overtime winner in Game 7 of the quarter-finals against the Islanders two years later, in the spring of 1978, but that’s a memory for another day.) And they also had Claire Alexander, who had played his hockey in the old Ontario Senior “A” loop, until he played for the Leafs’ minor league squads in Tulsa and Oklahoma City before he joined the big club at the age of 27. [Snowy Strong for ALS](https://snowystrong.ca/): Your [gift](https://snowystrong.ca/) to the Calgary Flames Foundation supports ALS research and treatment at leading institutes of Chris Snow’s choosing, including Sunnybrook Brain Sciences Centre in Toronto. He was called, along with his friend Inga, a “Chicken Swede.” The “Broad Street Bully” Flyers (and others) tried to intimidate Borje at every turn. It was the spring of 1976. Sittler was the team leader, no doubt, on and off the ice. Over time, he became a player that others looked up to and went to for advice. (I think Gerry McNamara may have been one of the scouts to spot the duo, but I’m not fully sure— it was a long time ago.) His mettle was tested early and often in his rookie season. When Salming arrived with fellow Swedish international Inge Hammarstrom in the summer of 1973, he was part of a massive facelift for a team that, record-wise, had been quite awful in 1972-73. Other than a rising Darryl Sittler, the cupboard was not nearly full enough with promising youngsters to really compete against the top rosters of the time. [Leafs](https://mapleleafshotstove.com/) passionately during Salming’s career, which ran from 1973 through to 1990, know well that he played 16 of those years in the blue and white.

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Leafs legend Salming no longer able to speak due to ALS disease (CityNews)

In August, former Toronto Maple Leafs defenceman Borje Salming announced he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig's ...

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Borje Salming has lost the ability to speak due to debilitating effects ... (HockeyFeed)

Folks, I regret to inform you that Borje Salming's fight against ALS is not going well. Salming's wife Pia Salming held an interview with Swedish ...

"I want to be able to be the wife I want to be for my husband in the last months of his life - not like we have now," she says. About the medicine stopped at customs - and about the frustration and anger about how difficult it is to get the right help as an ALS sufferer and their relatives. Worse than any of that though, Pia reports that Börje is suffering from severe depression as a result of his illness and that they have been denied drugs that would help ease his pain.

Salming's case of ALS worsening, Maple Leafs legend loses ability ... (SaltWire Network)

Borje Salming's fight with ALS has taken his ability to speak. That was revealed this week in a feature story in Expressen , a national ...

“We are very frustrated,” Pia said. Salming recently travelled to Canada and was prescribed a medicine that has been approved here, but not in Sweden. “Seeing the person you love feel this bad, and you can’t do anything.

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Lou Gehrig's disease: Former Maple Leafs Borje Salming loses ... (The Bobr Times)

UPDATE DAY. Inevitably, Borje Salming suffers the ravages of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The former star of the Toronto Maple Leafs has now lost ...

With or without medication, however, it seems that Salming is definitely heading for the end. Result: the package is stuck at customs. The Hall of Famer revealed in August that he had Lou Gehrig's disease, and a few months later, it went away.

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Triste nouvelle concernant l'état de santé de Borje Salming (Habsolument Fan)

Cette maladie, également connue sous le nom de la maladie de Lou-Gehrig ou de Charcot, est une maladie dégénérative qui atteint les neurones moteurs supérieurs.

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Red Wings Legend Lidstrom Helping Salming fight ALS (Detroit Hockey Now)

Red Wings legend Nicklas Lidstrom is serving on the board of the Börje Salming ALS Foundation as his childhood hero is battling the disease.

“I think it is very important to address the situation that arises when a relative gets ALS,” Lidstrom said. “It feels very good to be able to contribute with what I can contribute,” Lidstrom said. “So it was very emotional to talk to them.” “It is emotionally difficult to see Börje in such a situation. “I received a request about a month ago if I wanted to sit on the board and be involved, and I felt that was a matter of course,” Lidstrom told Swedish media site Expressen.se. Seeking to be encouraging promotion of research into the deadly, incurable disease, creation of the Börje Salming ALS Foundation took place.

Salming's case of ALS worsening, Maple Leafs legend loses ability ... (Toronto Sun)

That was revealed this week in a feature story in Expressen, a national newspaper in Sweden, on the legendary Maple Leafs defenceman and his battle with the ...

Salming recently travelled to Canada and was prescribed a medicine that has been approved here, but not in Sweden. “Seeing the person you love feel this bad, and you can’t do anything. Article content

The brother's anger - raging after the treatment of Börje Salming ... (California18)

Börje Salming is denied a personal assistant for his ALS. Now elder brother Stig Salming directs harsh criticism towards healthcare. Here are Sweden's 5.

– There is a lot that works, but in Börje’s case in Stockholm, where it is only governed by rule interpretation, that if you are over a certain age you do not get assistance. Stig himself knows how important it is with good and correct care. It’s about people who could have lived a few more months, if they had received the help they would actually get, so that you can stay at home as long as you can, says Pia to Expressen. There must be common sense, you cannot treat these patients in this way, says Stig Salming to Today, Börje Salming can no longer speak and needs to be tube-fed to get all the nutrition. In an instant, everything changes, Börje Salming said in a statement to TT.

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Nicklas Lidström opens up on ”very emotional” talk with Börje Salming after sharing devastating news (The Hockey Beast)

Börje Salming has always been known as a tough guy. But this summer, the Swede revealed that he'd been diagnosed with the fatal neurological disease ALS. Since then, he hasn't shared any information on how the disease has developed or how he's feeling.

”I was asked some months ago if I wanted to sit on the board and be involved, and of course I said yes. Since Salming’s diagnosis, he’s started the Borje Salming ALS Foundation, and Nicklas Lidström is on the board. Salming has received praise and prayers from all around the world, and in Sweden, several hockey icons are sending their thoughts and prayers.

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