Marco Polo said:
CruiseMissile said:
They risk thier life just to put on a show for us. I wonder if it will change the sport at all.
The video I saw didn't show them carry him off but if it was poorly done as suggested above then hopefully they will at least learn from this like the NFL did and introduce steps to get ice on the scene within seconds for spinal injuries and learn to do transports better with less movement. Honestly though, from the video of the actual landing it's amazing to me that he wasn't killed instantly.
There are other videos on you tube and liveleak showing him on the stretcher getting jolted around.
I agree, he was probably dead(basically) the second his head/neckhit the ground.
I was at an ECHL hockey game last night, and a player got hit into the boards face first. The game was stopped for 20 minutes while the trainer held his neck in place, EMT's arrived and put on a neck brace, strapped him to a backboard in the standing position, lowered him down on a gurney and wheeled him off. He will be fine, but proper protocal was followed. He was not just scooped up and put on a stretcher and bounced around to an ambulance.
