Goalie gets throat cut

I can remember my March 22,NHL game vividly. When you face death, it's going to be ingrained in your memory, even more than 30 years later.

This article was published more than 9 years ago. Some information may no longer be current. Buffalo Sabres goalie Clint Malarchuk clutches his throat after suffering a lacerated neck in this March 22, photo in Buffalo, N. Harry Scull Jr. The scar on the right side of Clint Malarchuk's neck is still visible. It's there for everyone to see on the cover of his new book. Hockey fans will always remember Malarchuk as the NHL goaltender who nearly died in after a skate blade sliced his jugular vein.

Goalie gets throat cut

Clint Malarchuk was a goaltender for the Nordiques, Capitals and Sabres while suffering high anxiety, depression and obsessive compulsive disorder. He was also nearly killed when sliced open by a skate across his neck in the most gruesome injury hockey has ever seen. After recovering from the near-death experience, Malarchuk battled depression and alcohol dependence, which nearly cost him his life and left a bullet in his head. As I prepared for our game against the St. Louis Blues that night, I sat by myself in the locker room at the Memorial Auditorium, staring down at the floor, visualizing myself in net. It was a routine I did before every game. The meditation forced me to focus on one thing: the puck. It quelled the chaos and turned it into a positive obsession. I'd run through stop after stop in my mind -- a pad save, a glove save, a breakaway. After being lost in an imaginary future, I got off the bench and went out into the hallway, beneath the seats slowly filling with fans. I turned to face a cement-block wall a few feet away, squared my shoulders and crouched.

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A man who was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter in the death of American ice hockey player Adam Johnson, whose neck was cut by a skate during a game, was released on bail Wednesday. South Yorkshire Police did not name the suspect or provide his age. He was arrested on Tuesday, and released on bail on Wednesday pending further inquiries. Matt Petgrave, 31, who plays for Sheffield, was the other player involved in the grisly incident that reverberated around the hockey community and led to moments of silence in the NHL. Video of the incident shows Johnson skating with the puck toward the Steelers net.

Read Story Transcript. In the middle of a televised hockey game in , the skate of an opposing player connected with Buffalo Sabres goaltender Clint Malarchuk's throat — and severed his jugular vein. As officials rushed to help, Clint turned to the team's equipment manager and said: "Hold my hand while I die. But Clint didn't die, despite the devastating injury. Miraculously, the team's trainer — a Vietnam War veteran — was able to stem the bleeding. Looking back, Clint thinks he was in shock for those first few months. But by the next season, he started to experience depression and anxiety, as well as panic attacks. Clint's accident became notorious, but when he met his future wife Joanie, she had never heard of him. They married in and moved to Fish Springs, Nev. He was drinking heavily, and his relationship with Joanie began to break down.

Goalie gets throat cut

I can remember my March 22, , NHL game vividly. When you face death, it's going to be ingrained in your memory, even more than 30 years later. I was the goalie for the Buffalo Sabres. We were playing the St. Louis Blues when a player named Steve Tuttle crashed into me, skates-first. I can see the whole play: Steve racing toward me, the skate coming up, and then blood rhythmically squirting from my neck.

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Closing comments 18 hours after initial publication helps to ensure effective moderation so that conversations remain civil and on-topic. But by this stage, Malarchuk thought he'd conquered that garbage. San Diego Gulls. But a skate blade to the jugular vein on the right side of his neck? Fort Saskatchewan Traders. Despite meeting with a professional and finally getting help, the goalie had issues accepting his diseases, obsessive-compulsive disorder and anxiety. But with any illness or sickness, you can get well. My brother, Garth, was at her house when it happened. Malarchuk's nickname in hockey was "the Cowboy Goalie" because he was active in the Calgary, Alberta -area rodeo scene during the hockey off-season. The crease was covered in blood. I didn't hear Blues forward Rick Meagher turn to the benches and scream for help. After being lost in an imaginary future, I got off the bench and went out into the hallway, beneath the seats slowly filling with fans. I slumped forward and it glugged out like a water fountain.

When most hockey fans think of former NHL goalie Clint Malarchuk, an image of him getting his throat slashed by an errant skate comes to mind.

I started to work on a better relationship with God. While promoting the book, Malarchuk knows he has to stay on top of his regimen of keeping his emotions in check because this is a stressful time in his life. The next day—yes, the next day—Malarchuk sat for a press conference in the hospital, saying he hoped to be back in net as soon as possible. While he doesn't consider himself to be "preachy," he does think that "God spared me for those that are still suffering. But decades later, undiagnosed PTSD from the incident would put his life in peril again. Read next. Distraught, Joanie phoned and an ambulance took Clint to hospital. If you would like to write a letter to the editor, please forward it to letters globeandmail. She flipped. Malarchuk served as head coach and assistant general manager of the Las Vegas Thunder in the —99 season and the Idaho Steelheads until I grabbed my neck, trying to keep the blood in, but it rushed between my fingers. I didn't see the white faces in the crowd.