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Off Topic => Sports Arena => Topic started by: nigel on October 29, 2023, 09:11:53 AM
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Absolutely horrible news.
Player dies after neck cut from skate
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/ice-hockey-player-johnson-dies-after-neck-cut/ar-AA1j22Om
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That is absolutely horrific.
What to say.
It's very strange as I was watching the Bruins Red Wings game this morning, and I remembered my fear of being sliced by a ice skate blade on an ice rink.
Fucking hell, RIP to the poor man
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Read about it and it sounded like an absolutely horrendous incident. Thoughts obviously go to his family and friends. Must have been terrible to have been there and witnessed it.
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Appears that Johnson was DOA at the hospital, but they held back the news until the next morning so that his family in the USA could be notified
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Although it’s shutting the gate after the horse has bolted, but I guess there will be some development in neck protection now.
I’ve read that special forces use Kevlar balaclavas, so it would possibly be along those lines.
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Although it’s shutting the gate after the horse has bolted, but I guess there will be some development in neck protection now.
I’ve read that special forces use Kevlar balaclavas, so it would possibly be along those lines.
Some leagues/competition already insisted on neck protection.
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Although it’s shutting the gate after the horse has bolted, but I guess there will be some development in neck protection now.
I’ve read that special forces use Kevlar balaclavas, so it would possibly be along those lines.
Some leagues/competition already insisted on neck protection.
Didn’t realise that, thanks 👍
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People watching the video want the player who caught him charged with Manslaughter. People watching the video who watch lots of Ice Hockey state it is a normal but unfortunate movement for someone in that position trying to regain balance and any other time he would have hit the shoulder or helmet.
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People watching the video want the player who caught him charged with Manslaughter. People watching the video who watch lots of Ice Hockey state it is a normal but unfortunate movement for someone in that position trying to regain balance and any other time he would have hit the shoulder or helmet.
I did wonder that when I read the police were looking into it.
I haven’t seen video, I don’t really want to either, so I just assumed that they’d both fallen and it was an uncontrollable collision.
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https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/nov/01/adam-johnsons-death-makes-ice-hockey-face-up-to-games-dangers
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https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/nov/01/adam-johnsons-death-makes-ice-hockey-face-up-to-games-dangers
Good read.
Interesting that with Wayne Gretzky wearing neck protection it didn’t become ‘fashionable’ to wear it.
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...and also that the player who was saved from death/serious injury by a neck protector, stopped wearing one when he returned to the NHL.
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Elite League (the league Johnson played in)will not make neck guards compulsory
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/nov/03/coroner-offers-condolences-to-family-of-ice-hockey-player-adam-johnson
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Man arrested on suspicion of manslaughter in connection with the death of Adam Johnson.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-67419951
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I saw the clip, it was on an American hockey chat show, all the guests on it seemed to be of the opinion that he'd set out to hurt him. To the layman, even if he raised his foot to keep balance, raising it to neck height seems an unnatural action.
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I saw the clip on Twitter, it's horrendous. Charging him with manslaughter seems entirely the right decision, imagine the Eric Cantona kung fu kick, but with sharpened blades on his feet.
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I saw the clip on Twitter, it's horrendous. Charging him with manslaughter seems entirely the right decision, imagine the Eric Cantona kung fu kick, but with sharpened blades on his feet.
That sounds horrendous.
Totally different to how I imagined it happening.
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It certainly didn’t look remotely accidental.
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When I first heard about it I assumed the fella was down on the ice and a skate caught him and that it was just one of those tragic things that can happen. Then I saw the video and he was standing up and while I doubt the outcome was intended it certainly wasn't just 'one of those things'.
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The mitigating factor is that milliseconds before it happened, the accused player was barged and could claim he raised his leg to recover his balance, but as I said, to raise his foot that high seemed unnatural and malicious.
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I'm a bit puzzled here.
A manslaughter arrest and yet the other player involved in the incident played last night an received a standing ovation.
Am I missing something ?
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Wasn't the ovation at the weekend?
EDIT. From the papers, Petgrave given standing ovation on 12.11.23. Man arrested on suspicion of manslaughter 14.11.23
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Wasn't the ovation at the weekend?
EDIT. From the papers, Petgrave given standing ovation on 12.11.23. Man arrested on suspicion of manslaughter 14.11.23
Thanks. Duff info in an online article I read
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The mitigating factor is that milliseconds before it happened, the accused player was barged and could claim he raised his leg to recover his balance, but as I said, to raise his foot that high seemed unnatural and malicious.
I don't know enough about the sport to give a clear opinion of it to be honest. I've (very unfortunately) seen the video and whilst it does look bad, its difficult to know what intent was there