Former NHL star Adam Johnson, 29, dies in ‘freak @ceident’ during U.K. hockey game
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American hockey star Adam Johnson has died after a “freak @ccident” during a game in a British hockey league Saturday.
Johnson, who hailed from Minnesota, was 29.
Johnson was playing for the Nottingham Panthers, which is in the Elite Ice Hockey League, against the Sheffield Steelers on Saturday night at Utilita Arena Sheffield when he suffered a serious cut to the neck from a skate, the BBC reported.
The Panthers tweeted Saturday that the Challenge Cup game was “stopped” for a “bad injury” and players returned to the locker rooms. Fans were later asked to leave the building “due to a major medical emergency.”
