October 26, 2014

Minor League Hockey Player Suffers Gruesome Cut from Skate: A minor league hockey game in Peoria, Illinois, came to a halt Saturday after a player fell on an opponent's skate and suffered a deep and potentially life threatening cut to his thigh. Trainers and players from both teams raced to help Huntsville Havoc center Justin Cseter, bringing towels and fashioning a tourniquet out of a broken hockey stick. Dave Eminian of the Peoria Journal-Star penned this memorable lead: "The Peoria Rivermen were gaining momentum, had just scored to build a 2-1 lead over the Huntsville Havoc on Saturday at Carver Arena.
And then hockey gave way to horror."

posted by rcade to hockey at 06:02 PM - 2 comments

Gruesome story. Cseter is fortunate that there were people who knew how to help him, otherwise the incident would have been fatal. I checked the Huntsville, AL, Times website, but there was nothing about the incident there. I suppose it wasn't a real big deal, considering that it is Alabama and this is football season.

posted by Howard_T at 01:10 AM on October 28, 2014

Update (sorry, it's from ESPN)

posted by tommybiden at 08:08 PM on October 28, 2014

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