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.
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.
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
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.