NHL Hockey: Blackhawks Team Report: Fleury on the road to recovery.

Sports Network, The, October, 2002

Oct 21, 2002 (The Sports Network via COMTEX)

(Sports Network) - Chicago head coach Brian Sutter gave a rare update on Theo Fleury over the weekend and said that he expects his volatile forward to begin skating within the next two weeks.

"I wouldn't be surprised if he's skating in 10 days to two weeks," Sutter told the Chicago Sun Times. "Whether it's with us or not isn't up to me. It's just the feeling I get from the program, the schedule he's on."

Fleury was suspended two days before his team's season-opener for violating the league's substance-abuse aftercare program.

The Blackhawks head coach also said that he talks with Fleury daily and that his ongoing battle with alcoholism is going "real well." Fleury has spoken to his...

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