Chris Pronger, a 48-year-old Hockey Hall of Famer, knew some of what Damar Hamlin was experiencing because he went through something just like it on the ice during a Stanley Cup playoff game in 1998 in Detroit.
Pronger, a 48-year-old Hockey Hall of Famer, knew some of what Hamlin was experiencing because he went through something just like it on the ice during a Stanley Cup playoff game in 1998 in Detroit.
“In the video [of the play], you can kind of see me get up and try to skate and kind of stumble a couple of steps and then go down. Luckily, I had my hands in front of me because when I crumpled, I crumpled on top of my hands. Had I not had my hands where they were, I would have smoked my face on the ice, probably broke my face.”
“For me, it could have been much worse,” he said. “From a timing perspective — right place, right time and timing of the heartbeat, the timing of the shot that hit me — all those things just made it a perfect storm. It was like winning the lottery.”
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