St Louis Blues player Dylan Holloway appeared to nearly collapse and need to be taken off the bench on a stretcher after a puck to the neck.
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While he's still on the ice, there is venous pump from his lower extremity musculature. I wonder if he started getting lightheadedness because he sat down on the bench, which would've taken away that venous pump.
Slow the video down and it shows that there is already a red mark and or bruise starting above the right side clavicle
Interesting. I went to the general care once for pain in my neck. They were pushing in the side of my neck feeling for whatever. Then a few moments after I told them I had to lie down cuz I was feeling queasy. Only took a couple minutes to recover, so figured it was just an overreaction to the pain but maybe they just caused that reflex and my blood pressure dropped.
for those coming after the news breaks – puck struck his vagus nerve, he’s probably playing two days after this injury lol.
comio corttus just like you said Damar Hamlin had 5 mins after his injury.who tf listens to this guy
Follow up the next day is that it impacted his vagus nerve. He immediately knew something was wrong but saw a chance to possibly score so he didn’t immediately go to the bench. But once he did, things got fuzzy and he can’t really remember what happened. Was told no active for 24 hours then if all is well, he’s good. This happened Tuesday night and he plans on playing Thursday
Another note: that head athletic trainer is Ray Barile and he’s been with the team since 1995. He’s seen some stuff, including 2 cardiac events
Hard to tell but, was the puck deflected?
It seemed it wasn't as fast as a full-on shot which would mean a less-serious injury, but kudos to the trainer. NHL trainers are some of the best in the business!
Hoping Holloway's alright.
Scary, reminds me of the cricket player who died after getting hit in the neck with a ball.
I'd be curious to see this contrasted with the puck/neck injury Lundqvist sustained a few years ago
Definitely bp/vascular related. If it was a stinger, he would have immediately reacted to the electrical-like jolt down his arm.
I wonder if the delay in his symptoms also related to some kind of rapid onset of swelling (ruptured blood vessel?), compressing structures on the right side. Side flexing to that side would provide slack to those soft tissues and let them stretch out
Love the Hockey Content! You should look into the Gabe Landeskog knee injury thats had him out for over 2 seasons, there was just new of another setback in his recovery. Had a cartilage surgery. Hasnt played since 2022 and the injury apparently happened on this incident in 2020
https://youtu.be/IGslJFGUUzc?si=I2wXXBzfeCCEoOrf
Remote possibilities include arterial dissection
I heard an nba player rolled his ankle lastnight, can you cover that?!?!?
Kyle Hamilton???
Why does it always have to be the Blues when it comes to these scary injuries.
Is that why you can get light headed or even pass out after a heavy deadlift? Blood pressure spikes during the lift then have that reaction?
Should’ve stayed with the Oilers…going to miss you
Can you do one on Ja Morant’s latest injury??? Can’t seem to find out what happened
Luckily we are far from Trent McCleary that received it square in the trachea . Glad he is fine !
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Carotid dissection needs some consideration here too.
My son encountered the same during the hockey game and he skated back to the bench and shortly after he blacked out on the bench then was lifted to the emergency room.
Hey Brian, could you cover the recent injury during the Rice v. Memphis college football game?
I’d imagine it might be nerve damage or maybe a broken neck, but it’s just so weird because he was walking for a little bit and then fainted on his way to the sidelines.
Per googling : People sometimes pass out after getting a shot due to a reflex called the "vasovagal response," which causes a sudden drop in blood pressure when the vagus nerve is stimulated, often triggered by the discomfort of a needle, leading to insufficient blood flow to the brain and fainting.
It's conceivable this is all that happened.
I am going to watch more hockey in this video than I will watch all year.
Thanks for the analysis, however, you missed something.. as Dylan got to the bench and sat down.. before the medical staff got to him you can see him sitting on the bench in obvious distress and discomfort.. something was wrong.. at that point, I believe he had lost consciousness, it was only then that his own medical staff (the man holding his head) noticed something was amiss.
Chet injury please
Update on Chet? Best defender in the league and looks pretty bad :/
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He was told not to do any physical activity for 24 hours and he was a game time decision the next game
Off topic, I get a Dr Deadpool vibe. Like intellectually intelligent in the complete polar end of Deadpool's snarky quick derogatory retorts. Just saying. Glad he's moderately ok now going back on track.
This looks so much like the collapse of Jiri Fischer, of the Red Wings, collapsed on the bench after a shift. His Heart actually stopped and the had to use a Defibrillator and give him CPR on the bench!
Could the artery collapse or get like damaged permanently
Was. Watching a video on a old martial arts guy who was a bouncer in Australia.
Neck is apparently very vulnerable
And someone can be taken out easily with a neck strike.
Dude took that pretty well
He's back in the lineup two days after the injury. Excellent news!
On a different player. Ovechkin got hurt. Didn't look bad. All they said was lower leg injury. I wonder what it is. I never thought Wayne Gretzsky record would be broken. Ovechkin will definitely break it.
SCREENing Tha GOALIE?
He actually passed out first before the trainer grabbed his neck. The trainer grabbed and held his neck together after he passed out and started to fall over.