Frickin' ouch!

[katikat]

I don't usually talk about sports but this... frickin' ouch! Florida Panthers' Richard Zednik was hurt during last night's hockey game. Ow, ow, ow! His team-mate Jokinen cut Zednik's carotid artery with his skate. According to the news he lost almost 4 liters of blood but they managed to save him, thank God!

It's plastered all over the news here. We and the Slovaks, Zednik is Slovak, may not live in one state anymore but in cases like this, it doesn't seem to matter. Poor guy. And poor Jokinen too. He wanted to go with Zednik to the hospital, he was totally down. I don't think that they should have continued with the game. The hockey players thought so too. After that, Zednik's team-mates had no thoughts for the game :(

Comments

[bodgei.livejournal.com]

I don't follow the south east hocky teams (but when I hit the NHL site it would have been all over - I should go check)

man - at least they managed to save him - I remember a golie beign killed that way... a while ago

[katikat.livejournal.com]

The "funny" thing is that the goalie who had his throat slashed, it happened in the same arena to the Buffalo Sabres in 1989. Fortunately, back then, they saved him too. But it was yucky X(

I don't follow sports much but when it's about the Czech or Slovak sportmen/women, it does catch my attention :)

[bodgei.livejournal.com]

wow I wasn't thinking of the guy in the 80's (I remember that happining - it jsut wasn't what poped to mind)... there was a guy before the 'modern' cage type masks. I'll have to ask my husband - he'll rememeber. I want to say 70's?

I only follow one sport, hockey: coledge, NHL and sometimes International(go finland) and it's full of Czech and Slovak guys.