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St. Louis Blues guardant Dylan Holloway suffered an wounded to the cervix aft getting deed by a puck, causing the NHL subordinate to beryllium taken to the hospital.
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Hockey player Dylan Holloway is in stable condition after a terrifying incidental connected the ice.
The St. Louis Blues forward was taken disconnected the hockey rink successful a stretcher and transported to the infirmary aft taking a puck to the cervix successful the archetypal play of the team’s Nov. 5 crippled against Tampa Bay Lightning.
After the play, the NHL prima skated to the seat and began holding his cervix arsenic teammates and officials began to inspect the situation, arsenic was seen successful footage captured by ESPN.
“I was conscionable sitting beside him and saw thing was happening,” teammate Alexey Toropchenko told reporters aft the game. “I told Ray [Barile, the Blues’ trainer]. He knows what he’s doing. I was conscionable benignant of funny to what’s going on. Doctors came successful and, like, I deliberation everything is bully close now. But we were worried, everybody.”
Blue manager Drew Bannister expressed his concern for his subordinate portion speaking with reporters.
"I deliberation the lone mode I tin enactment it to you guys is if you're astatine work, you get a telephone that 1 of your household members is sick and rushed to the hospital," Bannister said of Holloway’s injury. "Holly is simply a household member. That was a tough. I thought we, arsenic a group, showed a batch of fortitude mentally being capable to propulsion done that.”
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As for the team’s quality to decorativeness the crippled portion Holloway, 23, was successful the St. Louis hospital, Bannister added, “We were capable to get updates connected Holly and benignant of enactment our minds astatine easiness a small bit, and we focused ourselves.”
The Blues bushed the Lightning 3 to 2, and the squad was encouraged by the update they received connected Holloway’s condition.
"From what we've heard, he's doing well,” Bannister added. “It's a bully sign."
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