Who wants to talk about nasty hockey injuries?
For me, it's got to be Clint Malarchuk getting his throat slit and almost dying on the ice. I got sick watching that one.
Please, I'm eager to here other opinions and comments.
"Let's get out of here before one of those things kills Guy!"
Limited only to those I saw personally:
Great Lakes Invitational, probably about 1975.
Guy pops through the defense just past the red line and goes in a breakaway at full speed. The puck is a little ahead of him, so the goalie comes out to try to knock it away. It's a race for the puck that the goalies loses, but the offensive player trips over the diving goalie, flipping the puck into the net for a goal as he hits the ice in a sitting position, spinning 180 degrees and smacking dead into the post.
No helmets then, when the back of that guy's head hit flush up against that iron post, it boomed like a gong had been rung. Olympia went silent, the kid was knocked completely cold, still sitting against the post, puck in the net. They took him off on a stretcher.
Second place, youth hockey, kid gets checked from behind in the corner. He hits one of the gates and it pops open. Pre-facemask days, he fall face first into the step, broken lips, teeth and nose, leaving a pool of blood on the ice.
"You didn't come into this life just to sit around on a dugout bench, did ya?"
1975, Henry Boucha got slashed in the head with a stick. Broke his eye socket bones and ended his career. I was there, they had to use shovels and the Zamboni to get the blood off the ice. Bruins' player Dave Forbes got charged with aggravated assault and only got off due to a hung jury.
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