My dad was watching a Leafs game one night and I was walking by when the Colton Orr/George Parros fight happened. If I remember correctly, when Orr went down, he pulled Parros with him, and Parros smashed his face into the ice. That one was pretty scary too.Todd Fedoruk getting his face shattered by Colton Orr's fist at MSG. Crowd went wild until they saw Fedoruk not moving. Scary, scary scene.
I think the scariest moments I've seen live are from other sports though. Christian Eriksen having a heart attack mid play and Romain Grosjean almost burning to death have to be the two scariest, both are pretty recent as well.
What made is worse was that the TV director was incredibly pathetic that day. It was very clear early on that it was very serious, but the guy kept finding shots of his teammates and family members in tears, and the medical personnel doing CPR on him. Absolutely inexcusable.Quoting this to echo the bolded, doubly so personally because Eriksen played for my favorite club team at the time which created an extra layer of scariness for me watching that happen. Dude just staggered forward and fell down, I've never seen anything like it and hope I never see it again.
Unfortunately, the Zednik incident.
I was in attendance for this game at the old Winnipeg Arena where Anaheim player Don McSween suffered a slashed wrist; the blood sprayed the boards and the ice between the player benches.
Ducks' McSween Suffers Severely Slashed Wrist
Mighty Duck defenseman Don McSween's season is probably over after he was severely cut on his right wrist by a skate blade in a bloody incident Saturday night during the Ducks' 4-3 victory over Winnipeg.www.latimes.com
Rich Peverley literally dying on the bench from a heart attack and then being brought back to life
I was also at that game and I had a Bruins fan behind me shouting that it was a clean hit... Not the smartest thing to do.I was at the game Chara broke Pacciorettys neck. That was scary and the looks I was getting while in my Bruins sweater was also scary
I think your the first person to mention Bertuzzi/Moore- Maby people at the time in the arena didnt thikn it was as bad as it was but obviously went on to ruin Moore's careerMy list would be, and these are all TV viewing fortunately, never had any incidents like these happen at a live game:
-McCleary puck to throat
-Linden smashing Jeff Norton through the glass (a lot of people love this clip, but it gave 10 year old me nightmares...)
-Pronger slapshot to chest
-McSorley stick swing to Brashear's head
-McLaren on Zednik
-Stevens on Lindros
-Stevens on Kariya
-Bertuzzi/Moore
-Iginla fight vs... Kesler I think it was? In which Iginla severely dislocated his finger and this was shown live, his finger bent fully sideways
-Rome/Horton
-2011 riot
-Perry/Tavares
-Schiefele/Evans
And I'm probably forgetting plenty of others...