The participant died at a coaching session for the SKA St. Petersburg youth group
Authorities within the Russian metropolis of St. Petersburg have begun a legal investigation into the circumstances surrounding the dying of a younger hockey participant at native group SKA.
The teenager, named as Vsevolod Malkov from a crop of gamers born in 2008, died after being struck by a puck at a coaching session on Thursday.
The group introduced the information on its web site, describing the incident as “a horrible tragedy occurred for your complete hockey household.”
“Throughout one of many workouts, after a defender [shot], the puck hit the participant within the chest within the coronary heart space. The group physician instantly assisted the hockey participant and known as an ambulance, which carried out resuscitation measures.
“The participant’s coronary heart was in a position to begin, he was taken to the hospital, however the boy couldn’t be saved,” added a press launch from the KHL group.
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SKA, which is one in every of Russia’s greatest and most profitable hockey groups, expressed its condolences to the household of the younger participant, vowing to offer no matter help obligatory and to conduct its personal investigation.
The case has additionally been taken up by the native authorities, which introduced they had been initiating a legal case primarily based on potential “infliction of dying by negligence.”
“In line with preliminary knowledge, on the afternoon of August 11, 2022, a puck obtained beneath the protecting armor of sports activities uniforms whereas training recreation moments on the ice,” stated an announcement from the Investigative Committee.
The pinnacle coach of SKA males’s group, Roman Rotenberg, stated he and others on the group had been “shocked” by the tragedy.
“I didn’t sleep all evening and thought in regards to the boy. It’s tough to seek out phrases to specific all of the bitterness and ache of loss, that is an irreparable loss for our academy, for the membership, for your complete huge hockey household,” he stated.
“There’s nothing worse than the dying of a kid. We will certainly present any obligatory monetary help to his household. Every of us deeply mourns with the boy’s kin, he’ll endlessly stay in our hearts.”
