Ice hockey death

[nigel]

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

[Axl Rose]

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

[tomd2103]

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.

[UK Redsox]

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

[nigel]

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.

[UK Redsox]

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.

[nigel]

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 👍

[Somniloquism]

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.

[nigel]

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.

[UK Redsox]

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/nov/01/adam-johnsons-death-makes-ice-hockey-face-up-to-games-dangers

[nigel]

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.

[UK Redsox]

...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.

[UK Redsox]

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

[Brazilian Villain]

Man arrested on suspicion of manslaughter in connection with the death of Adam Johnson.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-67419951

[PeterWithe]

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.