Ice Hockey | Player arrested for manslaughter following death of Adam Johnson (P18)

[Brad mcfc]

Awful.

RIP Adam.

 

[mexico1970]

RIP Adam, terrible news.

 

[Gray]

Ice Hockey is a fantastic game to watch live (no good on TV), but is inherently dangerous.

My heart goes out to his loved ones.

 

[Corky]

The first EIHA game will Faceoff at 1pm still, just the EIHL off.

 

[dronefromsector7G]

Very sad news. I’m really struggling with why the guy lifted his leg so far off the ground. Never witnessed anything like it

 

[Barcon]

Horrible news. This has to be a freak accident.
In all the years over here I can only ever remember one other major incident like this and I don't think it ended with the player dying.

 

[oakiecokie]

WOW how horrible that must have been and for both teams and fans to have witnessed that terrible tragedy.
RIP.

 

[Wretched Vengeance]

Saw the video. Horrendous. Not sure what the other bloke was thinking.

RIP

 

[Bluemoon dan]

Christ. The video just popped up on my timeline on twitter. Didn't know what it was at first. Just horrendous. He actually skates off the ice too which somehow makes it worse.

 

[BlueMoonday]

Awful, RIP Adam. Can't imagine what his family are going through.

 

[Crouchinho]

Horrible news. This has to be a freak accident.
In all the years over here I can only ever remember one other major incident like this and I don't think it ended with the player dying.

Yep very rare. I think some fella ex-military ended up acting fast doing first aidto save him?

Awful it happened in sport. I don't know if they figure out a way to prevent this happening again

 

[Barcon]

Yep very rare. I think some fella ex-military ended up acting fast doing first aidto save him?

Awful it happened in sport. I don't know if they figure out a way to prevent this happening again

Yeah, not sure how it happened but it sounds like a high skate I'm guessing it might have nicked the players neck?
There's only a small area that's unprotected so a lot of it is sheer bad luck.

 

[Crouchinho]

Yeah, not sure how it happened but it sounds like a high skate I'm guessing it might have nicked the players neck?
There's only a small area that's unprotected so a lot of it is sheer bad luck.

I reckon so mate. Freak injury. A bit like when that batsman for Australia got hit with the ball it was one in a million type hit that killed him

 

[meltonblue]

Awful, RIP Adam. Can't imagine what his family are going through.

Can’t imagine how the other player that did it is feeling too, they’re going to need a lot of support.

Horrendous.

 

[feedthegoat27]

Yeah, not sure how it happened but it sounds like a high skate I'm guessing it might have nicked the players neck?
There's only a small area that's unprotected so a lot of it is sheer bad luck.

I've, unfortunately, seen the video and the poor bloke didn't stand a chance.
The speed of the collision coupled with what appears to be a full blade/boot impact into the neck....it's brutal.
I imagine even just a nick on the neck could be fatal, but this was way worse than that, sadly.

How he manages to get up after the impact I've no idea; thankfully the video ended as he starts skating off with a teammate trying in vain to help him.

Awful for the guys family, teammates, fans and anyone in attendance.
The other player involved must be feeling terrible too; not sure how'd you ever move on from that, despite it being a tragic accident.

 

[idahoblues]

Poor fella, crazy thing

 

[Zabbasbeard]

The EIHL put out a message with some links for anyone that may need help after witnessing it. If they feel they need it here is the tweet with the links to resources that can help out.

Thanks mate I will pass it on.

 

[yatesy94.]

Just seen the clip on Twitter wish I hadn't now awful stuff. The other guy there was no need to smash into him recklessly asking for trouble whether it be a head injury or causing a bone break. Unfortunately on this occasion, it was a much more tragic outcome R.I.P Adam.

 

[skillman]

I've seen the video. Very innocuous but odd collision with sickening consequences.

Fingers crossed he pulls through and the medical staff got to him quick enough.

I'm a season ticket holder at Storm and despite all of the padding the players wear, there's so many areas of the body that are exposed and freak accidents like this can happen.

Out of interest - purely my own ignorance - but why isn’t the neck covered? Or is it?

I’m amazed stuff like this doesn’t happen more often and equally amazed that every bit of skin isn’t covered given the speed of the play and sharpness of the blades.

Horrible injury.

 

[wolfie1988]

Just seen the clip on Twitter wish I hadn't now awful stuff. The other guy there was no need to smash into him recklessly asking for trouble whether it be a head injury or causing a bone break. Unfortunately on this occasion, it was a much more tragic outcome R.I.P Adam.

Petgrave comes in to deliver a hip check but gets clipped by another Panthers player sending him completely off balance and into a spin. The angle of the video doesn't show it very well