This hit was on the Sporting News hockey site and I thought I would share it with the readers. This is a vicious check and you have to wonder if the OHL's league office will suspend Liambas for additional games or not. I also wonder if some of these players aren't wearing their helmets correctly?
KITCHENER, Ont. -- A junior hockey player remains in critical condition with skull and facial fractures after a hard check into the glass during a game Friday night.
Kitchener Rangers defenseman Ben Fanelli fell to the ice after getting hit by Erie's Michael Liambas during a 4-0 victory in an Ontario Hockey League game.
Fanelli's helmet went flying during the collision, and a pool of blood from a cut on his face formed on the ice under his head. The 16-year-old player was conscious when he was airlifted to a Hamilton hospital.
Rangers CEO Steve Bienkowski said in a statement posted on the team's Web site Sunday that Fanelli was in critical but stable condition.
Liambas received a boarding penalty and was ejected from the game for delivering the hit.
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ReplyDeleteThat Liambas is a fucking goon. The guy was had that hit planned from the blue line. Blah blah. contact sport. if he gets back on the ice, then someone should do the same hit to that prick.
ReplyDeletehe should be charged with assault.