Twenty-year veteran NHL linesman Don Henderson underwent neck surgery to repair damage from being knocked to the ice by Calgary Flames defenseman Dennis Wideman last January, and there are fears his career may be over, the Boston Globe reported Saturday.
According to one of Henderson's friends in the officiating business, the recent surgery was aimed at repairing two ruptured disks in his neck, the result of the hit, per Kevin Paul Dupont's report in the Boston Globe.