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?