Worst/Most Gruesome Injuries

[Domino666]

After hearing and watching video on G getting cut last night, I started to think about devastating injuries to Flyers over the years, then to the worst most gruesome in the NHL/and or world, and since I love lists I will ask: in a top 5 format which we're the most devastating injuries to Flyer players over the years?
Most devastating injuries overall NHL/World?
And most gruesome NHL/World

Thanks in advance for playing along!!!

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

the game where Roenick took that slapshot to the face against the Rangers.
then they kept playing it in slo-mo over and over again.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

Clint Malarchuk got his neck sliced with a skate blade back in the day. It's easily the most gruesome in the history of the league & quite possibly in all sports.

 

[PALE PWNR]

Patrick Thoreson is worst of all time for Flyers players

 

[Hockeypete49]

For me it was Barry Ashbee. It still seems to me like yesterday. Thank God for visors now.

 

[RoDu]

I was watching this live on TV


changed the channel to wrestling to see this happen



that's a damaged vertebrae and spinal shock

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

cant forget about Mark Howe. came within a fraction of an inch of not being able to play again when he got impeded on that goal peg.

 

[PALE PWNR]

or Bernie Parent taking a stick to the eyeball, or Primeau or Pronger or Lindros having their brains turned to mush

 

[Domino666]

I was watching this live on TV


changed the channel to wrestling to see this happen



that's a damaged vertebrae and spinal shock

I remember watching that with my Dad, that to me was shocking the way Petr hit the ice, on a side note one of my favorite Flyers teams was that one, Podien is one of my all time favorite Flyers, still have his #25 jersey!!!

 

[JDinkalage Morgoone]

Most painful in the moment would have to be Thoreson. Long term, I would say any of the guys suffering from PCS.

 

[WhiskeyBoarder]

Mine is Pronger's injury because I swear I recall being able to audibly hear him in pain.

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

Most painful in the moment would have to be Thoreson. Long term, I would say any of the guys suffering from PCS.

thing I remember from that was Healey accusing Thoreson of faking it.

 

[PALE PWNR]

I just can't imagine what that would feel like. Just blinding pain.

 

[JDinkalage Morgoone]

I just can't imagine what that would feel like. Just blinding pain.

Getting a light flick to the nards is painful. Imagine a frozen piece of vulcanized rubber launched around 90mph.

 

[Halladay]

Wasnt it Zednik whose artery in his neck was cut?

 

[JDinkalage Morgoone]

Wasnt it Zednik whose artery in his neck was cut?

Yep. Zednik was knicked by Olli Jokinen. Malarchuk had his throat slit straight across. That was GRUESOME to watch.

 

[Richi]

Swiss hockey league:

Ronny Keller:

2nd Swiss league. Ronny Keller will be paralyzed for his whole life after a hit which sent him head first into the boards.



Michel Zeiter:

Got his throat cut by a skate. Damage to the trachea and the carotid artery. Looked very similar to the Malarchuk injury, but was supposedly even worse. However he returned to hockey after a few months. No video available

Frederic Rothen:

Slapshot directly into his mouth by Goran Bezina (who has probably one of the hardest shots world-wide)

 

[tytech]

Yep. Zednik was knicked by Olli Jokinen. Malarchuk had his throat slit straight across. That was GRUESOME to watch.

Zednicks was pretty gruesome. The amount of blood to come out so fast. Was like a bathtub faucet in his neck was turned on.

 

[King Forsberg]

I don't think anything has or, hopefully, will ever be as gruesome as Malarchuk. It looked like something out of a gore movie but it happend live on television. He had to tell the trainer to get him off the ice so his mother didn't see him die on tv. It doesn't get much worse than that. Thank god he was on the side of the ice wear the exit was and had a military trained medic nearby.

 

[ericWONT]

My top 3 would have to be the Pronger slapshot to the eye, mostly due to his reaction. Then the slapper that Lappy took to the eye (or both of them). The one that tops it all that I'm not too sure would count is the skate that severed Pat Dapuzzo's nose almost clean off. I know he was a linesman and not a player but it happened during a Flyers game and that was straight up scary.

 

[PALE PWNR]

Not that it pertains to this specifically but since we're talking about him. That's not the last thing Malarchuk has had to deal with that was that urgent and life threatening. In 2008 while cleaning his 22 caliber rifle he accidentally shot himself in the face.

"I'm Walking Around With A Bullet In My Head And A Scar On My Neck": Clint Malarchuk, At 50

 

[ericWONT]

Yep. Zednik was knicked by Olli Jokinen. Malarchuk had his throat slit straight across. That was GRUESOME to watch.

Actually, the two injuries were the same. Both had a carotid artery severed. The only difference was one was the external CA and the other was the internal CA. They're both just branches of the same common CA, however. It's a bit scary how both were practically the same injury and I remember hearing about how traumatic it was for Malarchuk to see Zednik's injury.

 

[King Forsberg]

Not that it pertains to this specifically but since we're talking about him. That's not the last thing Malarchuk has had to deal with that was that urgent and life threatening. In 2008 while cleaning his 22 caliber rifle he accidentally shot himself in the face.

I'm glad Malarchuk was okay after this and still alive, but how can you be that dumb to clean a gun with live ammunition in it?

 

[PALE PWNR]

I'm glad Malarchuk was okay after this and still alive, but how can you be that dumb to clean a gun with live ammunition in it?

Police listed it as accidental under suspicious circumstances. More recently Malarchuk has been diagnosed with severe depression. It's possible it was a suicidal attempt.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

Police listed it as accidental under suspicious circumstances. More recently Malarchuk has been diagnosed with severe depression. It's possible it was a suicidal attempt.

He later admitted it was a suicide attempt.