I love Hockey but...

[Sooner_Havok]

Damn it is one dangerous sport!

link (http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/video/videopage?videoId=3240134&categoryId=2378529)

[mfosterftw]

Sabres goalie Clint Malarchuk, 1989...

Unedited camera feeds...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plvKlnguJVE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaZXoZbvq9s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maQuHpl7vM0

[Boomer.....]

:eek:

[85Sooner]

for doing what he did to keep this kid from dying. Talk about keeping your wits about you. After watching hockey all my life and being an assistant trainer for 3 years. This is the worst thing I have ever seen.

http://www.breitbart.tv/html/45064.html


Not for the squeemish.

Glad he is going to be okay.

[GrapevineSooner]

Malarchuk is lucky that he was tending the goal at the Zamboni end of the rink and was able to get off the ice and have a former medic in Vietnam pinch off the artery.

Had he been at the other end of the rink, I don't think he would have made it.

[mfosterftw]

Not for the squeemish.

Would-be B-Horror Flick directors and F/X guys need to look at these clips for a real view of what a gushing neck looks like.

Maybe Saw series producer and future Tampa Bay Lightning owner Oren Koules will incorporate a skate-to-neck scene in a movie one of these days...

[85Sooner]

Would-be B-Horror Flick directors and F/X guys need to look at these clips for a real view of what a gushing neck looks like.

Maybe Saw series producer and future Tampa Bay Lightning owner Oren Koules will incorporate a skate-to-neck scene in a movie one of these days...


Boooooooo;)

[Scott D]

it's good to hear that Zednik is is expected to make a full recovery.

Been a bad weekend for hockey. Zednik, Dan Cleary taking a shot off the jaw breaking it, a ref in the Flyers/Rangers game taking a skate to the face causing him to need 60 stitches.

[mfosterftw]

Boooooooo;)

Well they had their chance with a real hockey player in the first movie. Paul (Mike Butters), the guy trapped in the razor wire, was a minor league player and owns a junior team in Helena, Montana.

Koules also played major junior with a brief stint in the minors before moving on to other things...

[Sooner_Havok]

Sabres goalie Clint Malarchuk, 1989...

Unedited camera feeds...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plvKlnguJVE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaZXoZbvq9s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maQuHpl7vM0

Yeah I have seen that before. Thats what I thought of as soon as I saw that. During the game one of the announcers said he had never seen that much blood before, the other one said he unfortunately had, he was there for Clint Malarchuk

[mfosterftw]

Yeah, both incidents happened in Buffalo... what are the odds?

[Scott D]

18 years later it still spooks him.


Almost 2 Decades Later, Malarchuk Still Haunted by His Own Gory Accident

Feb 12, 5:44 PM (ET)

By RUSTY MILLER

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -Clint Malarchuk watches tape of Richard Zednik's throat slash and is thrown back almost two decades. That's when he had his own gruesome moment on the ice.

Malarchuk, now the goaltending coach for the Columbus Blue Jackets, was in goal for the Buffalo Sabres on March 22, 1989. St. Louis Blues forward Steve Tuttle was flipped upside down in the crease, his skate flying up and slicing Malarchuk's jugular vein.

"It's been a pretty emotional couple of days for me," Malarchuk said Tuesday, two days after Zednik's carotid artery was nearly severed by Florida Panthers teammate Olli Jokinen's skate in a game against the Sabres in Buffalo. "It's been almost 19 years. I wouldn't think that kind of a memory would flood back for me like it did."

At the time, there were reports that 11 fans fainted and two more had heart attacks when Malarchuk's macabre accident took place. Three players vomited on the ice.

Zednik's injury wasn't nearly so bloody, although it silenced a large crowd and stunned both benches. He remains in a Buffalo hospital, where his condition was upgraded to good Tuesday. He is expected to fully recover.

Malarchuk said his initial thoughts were with Zednik's family.

"I know my family was pretty shaken up when it happened to me," he said. "It's tough."

Malarchuk has tried to get a message to Zednik through the Panthers' front office. He would like to speak with Zednik when the time is right.

"If I talk to him, I'll tell him time heals," said Malarchuk, who played 11 seasons with the Quebec Nordiques, Washington Capitals and the Sabres from 1981-92. "If he asked me if he should take his time getting back, I would probably say I didn't. It's better if you get back in there because you're going to be hounded by people with questions until you do."

His psyche was damaged for years.

"I had wicked nightmares where I'd sit up straight in bed like in the movies, sweating," Malarchuk said. "It was just a flashback. I'd see the skate coming up. That didn't go away right away."

Malarchuk needed 300 stitches, yet spent only one night in the hospital. He returned to practice four days later.

"I grew up around rodeo," he said, standing in the middle of the Blue Jackets' dressing room. "You got bucked off the horse, the sooner you got back on the better you were going to be. You can't be living with negatives all the time. You've got to get some positive flow back. I thought it was important to come back as quickly as I could."

Then he added with a laugh, "And I was also in the option year of my contract."

Malarchuk returned to play in the Sabres' 1989 season finale, working the final five minutes - less than two weeks after his injury.

He's seen replays of his accident many times but isn't bothered by it because he feels it's almost as if he's watching someone else. Other things, however, do bother him.

"I have a hard time if I see a slasher movie," he said.