What was that play in hockey where one guy got SEVERLY injured?

Question

i think it was maybe 5 years ago or so i think danny heatley was involved i dont know though someone like banged his neck on someones stick and got carried out on a stretcher...Who were the people involved in this.

Answer 1

go back to hte early 90's CLint MAlarchuk had his juglur (sp) vein cut by a players skate. You still can see it on you tube. it is disturbing to say the least.

Answer 2

On March 8 2004, Todd Bertuzzi of Vancouver essentially came at Steve Moore of the Avalanche from behind and drove him to the ice with his forearm to Steve's neck. He broke 3 vertebrae, had a grade 3 concussion, nerve damage, and facial cuts.

Todd was retaliating for a hit delivered by Moore on Vancouver's Markus Naslund in a previous game. Moore elbowed Naslund in the head. No penalty was called.

Bertuzzi forfeit about $500,000, Vancouver was fined $250,000, and Todd was suspended until the 05-06 season. Bertuzzi has apologized many times. Moore has filed a civil suit against Todd for $19.5 Million. Gary Bettman is allegedly trying to get the two to settle out of court.

I think the incident you are referring to is when Boston's Marty McSorely whacked Donald Brashear of Vancouver with his stick in a baseball-swing style. Brashear fell and hit his head on the ice, suffering a grade 3 concussion. He returned after several weeks.

Answer 3

On March 8 2004, Todd Bertuzzi of Vancouver essentially came at Steve Moore of the Avalanche from behind and drove him to the ice with his forearm to Steve's neck. He broke 3 vertebrae, had a grade 3 concussion, nerve damage, and facial cuts.

Todd was retaliating for a hit delivered by Moore on Vancouver's Markus Naslund in a previous game. Moore elbowed Naslund in the head. No penalty was called.

Bertuzzi forfeit about $500,000, Vancouver was fined $250,000, and Todd was suspended until the 05-06 season. Bertuzzi has apologized many times. Moore has filed a civil suit against Todd for $19.5 Million. Gary Bettman is allegedly trying to get the two to settle out of court.

I think the incident you are referring to is when Boston's Marty McSorely whacked Donald Brashear of Vancouver with his stick in a baseball-swing style. Brashear fell and hit his head on the ice, suffering a grade 3 concussion. He returned after several weeks.

Answer 4

On February 21, 2000, McSorley, playing for the Boston Bruins, swung his stick and hit Donald Brashear in the head with seconds left in the Bruins-Vancouver Canucks game. Brashear lost consciousness and suffered a Grade 3 concussion, but not from immediate contact with the stick. The stick hit Brashear's helmet, but caused him to fall backward. His loosely strapped helmet allowed his head to hit the ice.

McSorley was subsequently suspended for 1 year. On October 4, 2000, a jury found McSorley guilty of assault with a weapon for his attack on Brashear. He was sentenced to 18 months probation. The trial was the first for an on-ice attack by an NHL player since 1988. McSorley attempted a comeback, but he never played another NHL game.

Answer 5

If a stick was involved, it was the Marty McSorley stick hit to the head on Donald Brashear.

McSorley wanted to fight with Brashear but Donald wasn't interested and turned his back on him. McSorley whacked him with his stick directly on the helmet.

Brashear dropped to the ice like an old pair of gloves.

The hit everyone else is talking about is Bertuzzi on Moore but no stick was involved.

Answer 6

Clint Malarchuk (May 1, 1961, Grande Prairie, Alberta) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played in the NHL between 1981 and 1992. He is probably best known for an injury sustained during one of the most horrific in-game incidents in sports history.

Devastating throat injury
The notable incident occurred during a game on March 22, 1989 between the visiting St. Louis Blues and Malarchuk's Buffalo Sabres. Steve Tuttle of the Blues and Uwe Krupp of the Sabres collided at the mouth of the goal, and Tuttle's skate caught Malarchuk on the neck, slicing open his external carotid artery. With pools of blood collecting on the ice, Malarchuk somehow left the ice under his own power with the assistance of his team's trainer, Jim Pizzutelli. Many spectators were physically sickened by the sight with seven fainting and two suffering heart attacks while two teammates vomited on the ice. Local television cameras covering the game instantly cut away from the sight of Malarchuk.

Malarchuk, meanwhile, had only two thoughts: He was going to die, and he had to do it the right way. "All I wanted to do was get off the ice," says Malarchuk, now the goaltenders coach for the Columbus Blue Jackets. "My mother was watching the game on TV, and I didn't want her to see me die."

What saved Malarchuk's life—more accurately, who—was Jim Pizzutelli, the team's trainer and a former Army medic who served in Vietnam. He reached into Malarchuk's neck and pinched off the bleeding, not letting go until doctors arrived to begin suturing the wound. Still, Malarchuk came within minutes of becoming only the second on-ice fatality in NHL history.

Amazingly, he returned to practice 4 days later. And a week after that, he was back between the pipes against the Quebec Nordiques. "Doctors told me to take the rest of the year off, but there was no way," Malarchuk says. "The longer you wait, the harder it's going to be."

Malarchuk spent only one night in the hospital, and was back on the ice with his team two weeks later. However, his performance declined over the next few years, to the point that Malarchuk left the NHL. He battled obsessive-compulsive disorder (attributed to his injury) for a time, but he eventually returned to hockey, in the International Hockey League. After retiring as a player, Malarchuk continued his hockey career as a coach.

After Malarchuk's injury, the NHL instituted a policy requiring all goalies to wear neck protection.

Answer 7

Steve Moore was sucker pucnhed from behind by Todd Bertuzzi, in a 9-5 win of the Avs pver the Kings. The "reason" for the attack was that Steve Moore legally checked Nasland and he was hurt.

Which made Vancover really mad, even though it was a legal hit. And Brad May (Who now plays for the Avalanche) put a bounty out for Steve Moores head. Brian Burke(Anahiem's GM now) and Marc Crawford, apparently encouraged the hit.

I'm still mad, Bertuzzi should be in jail

Answer 8

No, they weren't playing hockey. Your thinking of when Dany Heatley hit a wall with his sports car at 80 mph and killed his teammate.

Answer 9

http://youtube.com/watch?v=iiLlz4-vUFg

Okay so the Bertuzzi thing was a horrible result but he din't mean to break the guys neck or face he was just retaliating which happens all the time in hockey.

I do agree entire cheap shot but there is no way he would do that if he thought that would result, and if he did well I'll be the first in line to detract, but I can't believe a reasonable or even nonreasonable human being would.

Answer 10

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Answer 11

That was Steve Moore getting blown out by Mr Todd Bertuzzi. He deserved it for what he did to Markus Naslund the game before.