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Originally Posted by FakenHaken
I remember kind of everything going slow motion in my head and then all of sudden Clint gets to his feet and boom he is out the back door to the dressing room. Thank god for the actions of the trainers.
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specific details about the incident, which indicate just how close he was to dying right there. Was the trainer ever formally recognized for saving Malarchuk?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clint_Malarchuk
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Malarchuk's life was saved by the team's trainer, Jim Pizzutelli, a former Army medic who had served in Vietnam. He reached into Malarchuk's neck and pinched off the bleeding, not letting go until doctors arrived to begin suturing the wound. Still, Malarchuk came within minutes of becoming only the third fatality to result from an on-ice injury in NHL history after Howie Morenz (1937) and Bill Masterton (1968). It was estimated that if the skate had hit 1/8 inch (3 mm) higher on Malarchuk's carotid, he would have been dead within two minutes. It took doctors a total of 300 stitches to close the wound..[6][7] It was also said that had the incident occurred at the other end of the ice, Malarchuk would have died - the Buffalo Memorial Auditorium had the locker room exits at one end of the ice instead of the location behind the benches, and he was at that end.[8]
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