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Originally Posted by Snakeeye
I can't remember who it was, but a Devil Rays Pitcher had that happen, was told his career was over. He battled back, was starting his comeback in the minors, and suffered the exact same injury a second time.
Pitchers breaking their arms is just one of the most disconcerting things to watch.
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Yeah but knowing that Cancer weakened Dravecky's arm and bone just somehow makes it....grosser. That and the sound was captured all to vividly as I recall....
Still, I don't know how Malarchuk isn't #1. Busted limbs are definately painful, but Clint could have DIED there. The man had a Wagner Power Painter jetting quarts of blood from his neck for the love of Jeebus. Quite the description on Wiki:
The notable incident occurred during a game on March 22, 1989 between the visiting St. Louis Blues and Malarchuk's Buffalo Sabres. Steve Tuttle of the Blues and Uwe Krupp of the Sabres collided at the mouth of the goal, and Tuttle's skate caught Malarchuk on the neck, slicing open his external carotid artery. With pools of blood collecting on the ice, Malarchuk somehow left the ice under his own power with the assistance of his team's trainer, Jim Pizzutelli. Many spectators were physically sickened by the sight with seven fainting and two suffering heart attacks while two teammates vomited on the ice [1] [2]. Local television cameras covering the game instantly cut away from the sight of Malarchuk.
Malarchuk, meanwhile, had only two thoughts: He was going to die, and he had to do it the right way. "All I wanted to do was get off the ice," says Malarchuk, now the goaltenders coach for the Columbus Blue Jackets. "My mother was watching the game on TV, and I didn't want her to see me die."
What saved Malarchuk's life—more accurately, who—was Jim Pizzutelli, the team's trainer and a former Army medic who 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 second on-ice fatality in NHL history
Thiesmann / Kaz looks like a Motrin Commercial by comparison.