On
February 10, 2008, Florida Panther Richard Zednik had his throat
cut by a skate blade when his teammate was falling to the ice.
Fortunately,
Zednik was able to skate to the bench under his own power (despite
profuse bleeding), and was quickly gotten to the hospital, and
was quickly reported to be in stable condition. The game was then
completed.
Oddly,
this incident occured in Buffalo, the same place where in 1989
Sabres goalie Clint
Malarchuk suffered one of the most graphic injuries in any
sport, when he had an artery cut in his throat during the game.