Brutal sport.
Surprising it hasnt happened more often... Same w/ broken necks.
I was watching a game once where the local kid stepped out for his first college shift ever, went head first into boards, snapped his neck.
Quadriplegic for life...
Travis Roy was a promising 20-year-old hockey star. Then moments into his first collegiate game as a Boston University freshman, a freak accident drove Travis into the boards. A cracked fourth vertebra left him paralyzed from the neck down.