Ottawa eye doctor helps enemy Penguins goalie

0 Comments | AFP, April, 2008

OTTAWA (AFP) — A Canadian optometrist has unwittingly given the Pittsburgh Penguins an advantage going into their opening National Hockey League playoff game Wednesday against her darling Ottawa Senators.

Optometrist Janet Leduc wrote in a letter to the Penguins' coaching staff some months ago that their goaltender, Marc-Andre Fleury, could improve his game if he ditched his trademark yellow pads.

Accompanying her letter was a graph describing how quickly human eyes identify various colors, she told AFP.

Leduc explained that the human eye spots yellow more easily than any other color and that is why ambulances, fire hydrants and school buses are often painted yellow.

"This means that of everything on the ice, the most visible object is Marc-Andre's...