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In Memoriam: Fallen Stars of 2022
The Ayr Centennials are mourning 1 of their own.
Eli Palfreyman, skipper of the Canadian Junior ice hockey squad Ayr Centennials, passed away Aug. 31 aft collapsing during a tournament. He was 20.
According to CBC, Palfreyman was successful the locker country during the 2nd intermission of a pre-season crippled erstwhile he collapsed. His mother—who is simply a nurse—reportedly rushed into the locker country arsenic the team's trainer started thorax compressions connected the athlete.
By the clip Palfreyman was placed successful an ambulance and taken to a adjacent hospital, Brian Shantz, vice president of the Centennials, told CBC that his pulse had go faint. The athlete died soon after.
"Eli was the fantastic skipper that we were looking guardant to have," Shantz shared Sept. 1 successful a connection to CBC. "As a skipper connected the ice, cipher took liberties with immoderate of our players oregon they were going to perceive from Eli. The different players respected him for that. They knew that helium had their back."
Following Palfreyman's death, his squad shared a touching tribute to their person connected societal media, alongside a photograph of him successful his uniform.
"Thank you for the outpouring emotion and enactment for our beloved Captain and beauteous young antheral Eli," the Centennials wrote connected Facebook Aug. 31. "Words tin not picture however overmuch it means to his household and our Ayr Centennials Family. We are each breached but consciousness your arms astir us."
The National Hockey League besides expressed their condolences successful a Sept. 1 tweet, writing, "We're heartbroken implicit the nonaccomplishment of Eli Palfreyman, a skipper and subordinate of the hockey assemblage who has near america acold excessively soon. Our thoughts and condolences spell retired to Eli's household and the full Ayr Centennials enactment during this hard time. #RIP17."
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