'First, the blue-liner tore off part of a teammate's ear with a slapshot. Then, at one point it appeared the cash-strapped Sabres were too poor to pay him $30,000 in owed bonus money. But in the latest, scariest instalment of the saga, the former Ottawa 67 has been shacked up at home and unable to play because of possible exposure to SARS, which has much of southern Ontario in a tailspin.'