Is there a sadder hockey story than Travis Roy's?

[Filthy Dangles]

Hard to not tear up when watching

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[LordNeverLose]

Humboldt

 

[LeafFever]

I don't think so. It is heartbreaking. I can't believe that happened seconds into his first shift. It was such a fluke, horrible break he got.

 

[K Fleur]

Sadness competition.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Sadness competition.

Yep...

Though for myself I don't think anything can top Lokomotiv.

If we're going by single cases, Bryan Fogarty and his personal demons is another tragic one.

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

I'd say what happened to Vladimir Konstantinov was much more heartbreaking.

 

[illpucks]

That girl on US women's team

 

[tucker3434]

Just plain old terrible luck. 99 times out of 100 he lands just a little bit differently and skates away. Kinda terrifying. Anybody that’s played has had some 99er’s.

 

[Nick Hansen]

People have died on the ice.

That said, it was a very sad story. Small margins in hockey.

 

[Filthy Dangles]

People have died on the ice.

That said, it was a very sad story. Small margins in hockey.

As bleak and terrible as this sounds, don't you think Travis might have preferred death at various points after what happened to him?

I can't imagine there weren't time where that might've seemed like hte better option. I know personally I probably couldn't have perservered like he did through that for all these years. Bless him....

 

[Stealth JD]

In 2002 Columbus Blue Jackets' Espen Knutsen took a shot that deflected off NHL player Derek Morris' stick and accidentally struck 13-year-old Brittanie Cecil in the head, resulting in her death.

 

[Jets4Life]

Ed Kea suffering brain damage in a game, while he was lent from the St.Louis Blues to their minor league affiliate at the end of the season, then getting screwed out of his insurance money by Alan Eagleson and the NHLPA.

 

[Schenn]

In 2002 Columbus Blue Jackets' Espen Knutsen took a shot that deflected off NHL Defenseman Derek Morris' stick and accidentally struck 13-year-old Brittanie Cecil in the head, resulting in her death.

Mostly correct. It wasn't NHL defenseman Derek Morris, it was NHL player Derek Morris.