hockey news

[mike89]

https://www.fox9.com/sports/former-minnesota-duluth-hockey-player-dies-during-game-in-england

heard this on the news today, sad deal and a real accident... 

[Bobberineyes]

Dang, not good!! Could happen at any time on the ice.

[LPS]

That is terrible.  RIP

[tangle tooth]

    Not an expert but, I think that's the first time I've seen that in a player that wasn't a goalie.

[Steve-o]

I remember there was a short track speed skater in the olympics that got his leg sliced open in a crash.  Blood everywhere on the ice.  A couple millimeters the other way and it would have got the femoral artery and there wouldnt have been anything that could have been done for him.

[fishwidow]

When I was about 12, I got cut by a skate blade. I was a horribly untalented skater, and when I was laying on the ice ( which was more often than standing upright), a kid tried to skate over me, straddling my body. His skate blade caught me about an inch above my left eye. Head wounds really bleed, and the local store owner called my dad to come get me. Just took one bandaid, but I still have a half inch scar above my left eyebrow.

[Gunner55]

There was a pc on neck protection on the Duluth news this AM. https://www.northernnewsnow.com/2023/10/31/duluth-store-sees-uptick-neck-guard-sales-following-death-pro-hockey-player/