ESPN sportscaster Linda Cohn says an upstate ice arena should be put in the penalty box after a bunch of overzealous kids knocked over a coin machine before her planned TV segment there — leaving her with 25 stitches.
Cohn, 54, filed a Manhattan federal-court negligence lawsuit against the operators of Brewster Ice Arena in response to the huge gash she suffered on her right arm.
Cohn says in her suit that “a heavy, large coin-change machine fell upon her” March 27 while she was about to take the ice for an interactive interview with players from the Rangers’ minor-league affiliate, the Hartford Wolf Pack.
Cohn, of Southbury, Conn., claims in her suit to still be suffering great pain and being limited in daily activities because of the incident, which she blames the Brewster, NY-based arena’s management for not preventing. She is currently on active duty working at ESPN.
The suit, which was quietly filed in July, doesn’t mention she works for ESPN nor does it provide much detail about what happened.
But Cohn did offer a photo on her Twitter and WhoSay accounts of her arm after it was stitched up. She said the incident prevented her from doing the Wolf Pack segment in which she planned to play goalie.
Cohn, who has worked at ESPN since 1992, played goalie in college while attending SUNY-Oswego and also played for the boys team at her high school.
“This is what kept me from taking ice w/ @WolfpackAHL today. Some kids playing in arcade knocked over metal machine onto my arm 25 stitches,” she tweeted.
The suit also names Steve Santini and Southeast Sports Complex LLC, which owns the popular three-rink arena. Messages left for SantIni were not returned.
ESPN referred comment to Cohn’s publicist, who did not immediately return messages.
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