Skate cut protection gets an emotional hockey dad endorsement at the NHL GMs meeting

MANALAPAN, Fla. (AP) — Tom Fitzgerald and wife Kerry watched their son Casey’s American Hockey League game on a cellphone at a restaurant bar on Dec. 28 and saw him come out of the corner on an otherwise innocuous play holding his hand to the right side of his neck.

He had been cut by a skate blade just above his neck guard and was bleeding when trainers rushed to him and got him into an ambulance. The only update his parents received, from Hartford’s trainer through his girlfriend, was that the bleeding was stopped and Casey was on the way to the hospital.

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