Hockey Skate To The Neck!! Ouch!!
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I was watching that game. Scary stuff! 
It is very hard to keep playing after something like that!!!!!!!
the commentators said that the refs lost the game.... ok..whatever.
haven't heard anything about the injury. hope all is well.
It is very hard to keep playing after something like that!!!!!!!
the commentators said that the refs lost the game.... ok..whatever.
haven't heard anything about the injury. hope all is well.
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He is lucky to have survived, there could have been a very tragic ending to that story.
From ESPN
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Florida Panthers forward Richard Zednik required lifesaving surgery after severing his carotid artery, his agent told The Associated Press on Monday.
Zednik was listed in stable condition in the intensive care unit at Buffalo General Hospital, and will continue to be evaluated through the day, attending surgeon Sonya Noor said in a statement released by the hospital.
Zednik had surgery Sunday night after losing a significant amount of blood during the game at Buffalo earlier in the day, agent David Schatia said. Zednik was sliced across the right side of the throat by teammate Olli Jokinen's skate in a frightening accident midway through the third period of Buffalo's 5-3 victory.
Canada's Sportsnet cable-TV network reported on its Web site that the skate blade just missed cutting the jugular vein. The Panthers returned home to South Florida following the game.
Joining Zednik at the hospital was his wife, Jessica, and Karen Cohen, wife of Alan Cohen, who is the Panthers' general partner, chairman of the board and CEO, hospital spokesman Mike Hughes said in a release. The two arrived by charter flight late Sunday night.
"The entire Panthers organization wish to extend their sincere gratitude and appreciation to the medical staff at Buffalo General Hospital, the Buffalo Sabres organization, the HSBC Arena staff and to the Panthers and Sabres fans who have expressed their thoughts and concerns," Panthers assistant general manager Randy Sexton said.
Sexton and Panthers assistant trainer Dave Zenobi stayed overnight with Zednik at the hospital. Zednik was circling the net behind the play and skating into the corner when Jokinen was upended by Sabres forward Clarke MacArthur. Jokinen fell headfirst to the ice, and his right leg and skate flew up and struck Zednik directly on the side of the neck.
Clutching his neck, Zednik left a trail of blood as he somehow raced three-quarters the length of the ice to the Panthers bench. He nearly fell into the arms of Zenobi, who immediately placed a towel on the player's throat. With the help of defenseman Jassen Cullimore, Zednik was escorted up the tunnel behind the bench and loaded into an ambulance.
Zednik, a 12-year veteran, is in his first season with the Panthers. When Zednik was with Montreal he sustained a severe concussion, broken nose, bruised throat and cut eyelid following a vicious blow to the face by Boston's Kyle McLaren during the 2002 playoffs. Zednik was knocked cold, had to be taken off the ice on a stretcher and spent the night in intensive care.
McLaren was suspended by the NHL for the rest of the Eastern Conference quarterfinals, missing the final two games of the series, which Montreal won in six games.
Zednik returned the following season to score a career-high 31 goals and match a career high with 50 points. He signed with the Panthers as a free agent last summer. After a two-month slump, he has been playing well. He entered the game on a four-game point streak, in which he had six goals and three assists, giving him 26 points (15 goals, 11 assists) in 54 games this season.
From ESPN
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Florida Panthers forward Richard Zednik required lifesaving surgery after severing his carotid artery, his agent told The Associated Press on Monday.
Zednik was listed in stable condition in the intensive care unit at Buffalo General Hospital, and will continue to be evaluated through the day, attending surgeon Sonya Noor said in a statement released by the hospital.
Zednik had surgery Sunday night after losing a significant amount of blood during the game at Buffalo earlier in the day, agent David Schatia said. Zednik was sliced across the right side of the throat by teammate Olli Jokinen's skate in a frightening accident midway through the third period of Buffalo's 5-3 victory.
Canada's Sportsnet cable-TV network reported on its Web site that the skate blade just missed cutting the jugular vein. The Panthers returned home to South Florida following the game.
Joining Zednik at the hospital was his wife, Jessica, and Karen Cohen, wife of Alan Cohen, who is the Panthers' general partner, chairman of the board and CEO, hospital spokesman Mike Hughes said in a release. The two arrived by charter flight late Sunday night.
"The entire Panthers organization wish to extend their sincere gratitude and appreciation to the medical staff at Buffalo General Hospital, the Buffalo Sabres organization, the HSBC Arena staff and to the Panthers and Sabres fans who have expressed their thoughts and concerns," Panthers assistant general manager Randy Sexton said.
Sexton and Panthers assistant trainer Dave Zenobi stayed overnight with Zednik at the hospital. Zednik was circling the net behind the play and skating into the corner when Jokinen was upended by Sabres forward Clarke MacArthur. Jokinen fell headfirst to the ice, and his right leg and skate flew up and struck Zednik directly on the side of the neck.
Clutching his neck, Zednik left a trail of blood as he somehow raced three-quarters the length of the ice to the Panthers bench. He nearly fell into the arms of Zenobi, who immediately placed a towel on the player's throat. With the help of defenseman Jassen Cullimore, Zednik was escorted up the tunnel behind the bench and loaded into an ambulance.
Zednik, a 12-year veteran, is in his first season with the Panthers. When Zednik was with Montreal he sustained a severe concussion, broken nose, bruised throat and cut eyelid following a vicious blow to the face by Boston's Kyle McLaren during the 2002 playoffs. Zednik was knocked cold, had to be taken off the ice on a stretcher and spent the night in intensive care.
McLaren was suspended by the NHL for the rest of the Eastern Conference quarterfinals, missing the final two games of the series, which Montreal won in six games.
Zednik returned the following season to score a career-high 31 goals and match a career high with 50 points. He signed with the Panthers as a free agent last summer. After a two-month slump, he has been playing well. He entered the game on a four-game point streak, in which he had six goals and three assists, giving him 26 points (15 goals, 11 assists) in 54 games this season.
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My Junior year of high school my team had swept through the regular season undefeated, and were going through the playoffs real easily. Against the last seeded team one of our guys got his wrist stepped on, and he was gushing all over the ice. For the rest of that game we were a completely different team, and lost bad.
Luckily it was not too serious for him, and it was a best of 3 series, which we won, and took the league title afterward.
That was scary chit! My defensive partner in high school took a blade behind the tongue of his skate and layed it open to the bone. The muscle bulged out of cut-sick.
clint malarchuk 1987
The most amazing part of the story is that some of the Dr's that saved his life were the very same Dr's that worked on Kevin Everet (the Bills football player that broke his neck).
Athletes note to self, IF you are going to have a life threatening injury have those Dr's around.
Athletes note to self, IF you are going to have a life threatening injury have those Dr's around.
It's just a scratch! Hockey players are effen tough ya know.
Scary to see that when it happened...Imagine how his team-mate feels...
He's a woose
A real hockey player would have asked them to stitch it up on the bench and maybe only missed 1 shift.It was 1989.
Malarchuk getting a skate to the neck
Suprising enough it took 300 stitches to get him closed up and I believe he was back a week later or something.
Back when I was a pee wee my dad was the coach and always made me wear a stupid neck guard, and I hated that damn thing. Till I got a skate to the neck. Luckily I had it on, or I could have been like one of these guys.
