KHL player leaves in ambulance after taking slapshot to head
A KHL playoff recreation changed into a tense state of affairs when a participant took a slapshot to his head and needed to be stretchered off the ice.
Within the third interval of Sport 6 within the convention semifinals between Metallurg Magnitogorsk and Avangard Omsk, Metallurg defenseman Alexei Maklyukov went down in desperation to dam a slapshot from Omsk’s Alexey Gritsyuk. What appeared like a typical hockey play in excessive stakes rapidly turned a medical emergency when Maklyukov took the rocket of a one-timer straight to his head.
You possibly can watch the complete video of the incident here.
Gritsyuk acknowledged the dire state of affairs and instantly threw up his hand to sign for assist from the medical employees on the bench. Play was referred to as lifeless as Maklyukov remained down on the ice along with his face in his palms.
After getting the participant off the ice through a stretcher and into an ambulance, the ice crew needed to deliver out the shovels and chip away on the frozen blood by the faceoff dot.
There isn’t a official phrase on Maklyukov’s situation. To take a number of the sting away, the 28-year-old noticed his crew advance to the convention finals as they beat the reigning champions Omsk 4-0 to win the seven-game collection.
As a result of 2008 demise of New York Rangers prospect Alexei Cherepanov, the KHL has been offering two ambulances at each recreation, able to take any injured participant rapidly to the hospital. With out that addition 14 years in the past, Maklyukov might have been struggling for for much longer with out correct medical consideration.
Sadly this hazard is nothing new for Russian hockey, both. Simply over a 12 months in the past, 19-year-old junior participant Timur Faizutdinov was hit within the head by a puck throughout on-ice motion and succumbed to his accidents, dying three days later.
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