Posted on 01/04/2023 5:06:41 AM PST by texas booster
Here’s a list of some other in-game or in-competition medical events that either suspended or postponed the competitions in which they occurred:
Christian Eriksen, soccer (2021)
Keyontae Johnson, college basketball (2020)
Jay Bouwmeester, hockey (2020)
Rich Peverley, hockey (2014)
Jiri Fischer, hockey (2005)
Hank Gathers, college basketball (1990)
Chuck Hughes, football (1971)
Bill Masterton, hockey (1968)
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Looks like the DMN young interns built a pretty good list of athletes who needed life saving medical attention on the field (or ice), in the wake of the Bills safety Damar Hamlin.
Worth looking up and seeing how many of these we remember.
He is the only player in NHL history to die as a direct result of injuries suffered during a game, the result of massive head injuries suffered following a hit during a January 13, 1968 contest against the Oakland Seals.
Wow.
The interns got the Chuck Hughes incident wrong. There was 62 seconds left in the game when play resumed, and the game was finished out, albeit absentmindedly, by the teams.
I don’t remember any of these, but I thought for sure Clint Malarchuk would be on this list.
He was an NHL goalie who got his carotic artery slashed by the skate of another player, and nearly bled out on the ice.
You can bet that stopped play. I recall there was a great big pool of bright red blood on that stark white ice.
Poor guy. It caused him severe PTSD, and he had constant nightmares about it. He ended up nearly killing himself when he had been drinking heavily in a shed where he had been shooting at squirrels and such, and his wife came out, and he told her he couldn’t shut his brain off.
He took the .22 rifle he had, stuck it under his chin, and pulled the trigger as he said to her “This is what I wish would happen” and the gun went off.
I didn’t think there was a bullet in the gun. He lived, and eventually ended up getting treatment after all those years.
Granted, they didn’t postpone the game IIRC when that happened, but it was quite the dramatic story when it happened.
The carotid artery can put out a lot of blood in a short amount of time, especially when your heart rate is up.
I remember that- didn’t he play for Washington? I remember an interview he did soon after when they showed him an the video of what happened he broke down hysterically and cried.
I had forgotten the injury until you brought it up.
From the Hockeyfeed article:
Then Richard Zednik suffered a similar neck injury when he was a member of the Florida Panthers in 2008. Another trigger for Malarchuk.
Looks like hockey might be a dangerous sport, at least occasionally?
Good catch.
I was looking for other incidents my feebled brain could remember when I saw the article.
Of course, I am not surprised that these young interns should have missed some major accidents on the field.
Once Backie Sherrod retired from the DMN in 2003, it has been all downhill from there for sports reporting.
No mention of the “769 athletes have collapsed on the field during a game from March 2021 to March 2022,” as claimed (without any evidence) by some of the nuttier Freepers.
The article is incorrect about one name on the list.
Keyontae Johnson, college basketball (2020), he was on Florida Gator basketball team, they were playing FSU, early in the game after a timeout, he was walking back on the court and collapsed face first into the court, immediately he received treatment from a cardiologist who was courtside and paramedics.
Here is video of the incident.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcg8jXvAkMI&t=302s
The game stopped to treat him, after he was rushed to the hospital them game continued.
He returned to the team but never played that year and last year, he transferred to Kansas State and is currently starting and playing significant minutes, he recently scored 28 points in a game and his coach called him the best player on the team.
Mentions neck trauma. Yup, that’s what I saw.
I saw the play on live TV when Chuck Hughes passed away. It wasn’t due to football injury but rather a clogged heart artery which in turn caused a fatal heart attack. Could have taken him in his sleep. (Long before covid vaccines I might add!)
Here is a case from about 6 years ago of a Wofford College Linebacker who went into cardiac arrest and nearly died, he was suffering from a congenital heart defect, after rushing him to the hospital, the game continued.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7K2J4oJ6mE
I had an incident (had a guy on a bike run into my car) that made me constantly see a video in my brain for about four months before it tailed off.
And I wasn’t even hurt.
But when my mind wasn’t occupied doing something (and even occasionally, when it was) that little video clip would just appear in front of my eyes, unbidden.
Super slow motion. Ultra-high resolution. Bright, vivid color. I could see the guy cartwheeling through the air, his bare calves, his black hole of a mouth, and his bike, cartwheeling in unison with him.
I would close my eyes, blink, and it would go away, but as soon as I stopped thinking about making it go away, it would begin playing again.
So when I read that quote by Clint Malarchuk saying he couldn’t shut off his mind, I felt like I knew what he meant.
And I think of our military personnel over the years who went through far worse, saw worse, and were often horribly maimed and what they went through, and I think now of that and see it all in quite a different light.
I simply cannot imagine how horrible that must be to have experienced what they did, but to see it again and again, not just in sleep, but awake. I didn’t quite understand before it happened to me just how possible that was.
I remember seeing Masterton, when he played for Denver, in College hockey.
All these sudden deaths are anecdotal until a statistical analysis is done on death rates in this group pre and post covid shots. I think it is the shot but cannot say so with authority.
That injury to Malarchuk was right at the peak of time I was playing hockey in a men's league, and was fully into watching hockey with friends, sometimes even three or four nights a week and playing two or even three nights a week. (That was around the time I got married, and surprise...my "hockey involvement" really dropped off after that! My wife put up with the smelly gear in the garage for a few years, but then I hurt my knee and couldn't play anymore.
I am thankful that I was too stupid to dwell on what had happened to him as I was playing, because I am not sure if I could have continued to play if I had. As a goalie, you are on the ice a lot, and people are all around you with their sharp skates.
But, it was damned gruesome. (by the way, it was his jugular that was slashed, not his carotid, and that makes sense. If it had been his jugular, he would not have survived.)
He said, though, given the pain caused by the PTSD and by the actual accident, that he would take the cutting of his neck over the pain and torture of the PTSD. Not even a close choice for him. And, he said, since he had experienced both having his neck cut and experiencing the PTSD, he knew of what he spoke. I believe him.
He played for Buffalo at the time, but...I do believe he ended up playing for Washington later in his career. Just damn.
Quite a gruesome photo.
Re-reading your post ... Carotid of jugular?
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