Scooter
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Glad you missed me.
That was the worst sports Injury I've ever seen
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Glad you missed me.
MNHawkeyeFreak
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What the heck was that hockey accident?
DuffMan
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He's that guy Happy Gillmore stabbed with a skate.
Scooter
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Someone mentioned him earlier. Dude lived but was minutes away from dying.
bcl20
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A players slid into the goalie and his skate sliced his carotid artery. Not sure how he didn't die on the ice.
Scooter
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Trainer was a med in a war and reached in the neck and pinched the artery closed until the paramedics showed up. So yeah seems dude was supper lucky, well as lucky as someone getting their neck sliced open could be.
MNHawkeyeFreak
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Now thats terrible!
Billso
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No, it isn't.
Unless a systemic weakness caused this (which is possible), a break is preferable and he'll come back stronger.
DuffMan
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That's just patently false. The metal plates they use just stabilize the bones while they heal. If the bones don't heal properly you are highly susceptible to further injury in the same spot because the metal plates are actually weaker than healthy bone tissue. A bad break like that he might not ever walk without a limp let alone come back stronger.
HawkeyeDug
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He walked off the ice under his own power. Returned to the arena two days later for a standing-O from the crowd and missed only 5 games.
bcl20
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Wikipedia says it was just a few years ago.
thejumper5
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Yes, he accidentally shot himself in the face and lived.
okeefe4prez
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Welp, it's a good thing I got called "low" for pointing out that Owen Hart had a pretty bad injury or else I might have made a Budd Dwyer joke here.
tm3308
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That's why most, if not all goalies, now wear those shields at the bottom of their masks. Some skaters also wear some sort of collar around their necks for added protection.
Hawkfromnorwalk
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Just read that his surgery last night went extremely well and doctors are very happy with the results. Said he will be released tomorrow from the hospital. For as gruesome as it was I read that everything was a clean break and after a year with a redshirt should be back on the court for the 14-15 season. I'm assuming getting past the mental aspect is going to be harder for Ware than the physical aspect.
DuffMan
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The mental aspect might be the toughest. If I were him I'd never leave my feet again.
WindsorHawk
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Yep...a break is better.
glidinghawk
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I had a compound fracture of my tibia and fibula, but only a tip of the tibia broke skin. When it happened, I thought I would be disabled for life as the whole bottom of my leg was upside down, and it felt like it was dangling from a thread.
The break was about 2 inches above the ankle. I was 14 years old at the time, and they had no sophisticated surgery/techniques at that time and no real substantive rehab programs. They screwed it up on the first try to fix it, and had to re-break it before I went into surgery. I lived in a tiny town in Iowa and the family doctor was a drunk. My rehab consisted of using a cane as my atrophied muscles regained strength after the leg was in a cast for 12 weeks. It was kind of embarrassing walking to and from school with a cane as a 14 year old. The leg was never the same.
But I think Ware will be just fine. We've come a long way since my injury 52 years ago.
WindsorHawk
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That puts your age at...never mind. I don't have an ACL in my right knee and the ACL in my left knee is stretched/strained. I've played power volleyball for 30 years since I was 18. I just retired last month (played the last 6 years with a torn right rotator cuff from pitching too much baseball practice) but have been wearing knee braces on both knees.
I had to quit all of my basketball leagues after the 1st knee injury...about 20 years ago. I had to cut back to 1 VB league 3 years ago. A break is better than ligament damage...from what my various doctors have told me over the years.
