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Clint Malarchuk
Malarchuk playing for the Quebec Nordiques in 1986
Built-in	(1961-05-01) May ane, 1961 (age 61) Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada
Height	six ft 1 in (185 cm)
Weight	185 lb (84 kg; thirteen st 3 lb)
Position	Goaltender
Caught	Left
Played for	Quebec Nordiques Washington Capitals Buffalo Sabres
NHL Draft	74th overall, 1981 Quebec Nordiques
Playing career	1981–1996

Clint Malarchuk (born May one, 1961) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) between 1981 and 1992. He has been a coach for four NHL teams and two minor league teams, virtually recently the Calgary Flames. He was built-in in Grande Prairie, Alberta, raised in Edmonton, Alberta, and lives in Alberta and Nevada.^[1]

Malarchuk is known for surviving a life-threatening injury during a 1989 NHL game when a player's skate fabricated contact with his neck, slicing his carotid artery and partially slicing his jugular vein,^[2] causing immediate massive claret loss.

Playing career [edit]

Early on career [edit]

Malarchuk played inferior hockey for the Portland Winterhawks of the Western Hockey League (WHL). He then went on to play professionally in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Quebec Nordiques, Washington Capitals, and Buffalo Sabres, and in the International Hockey League (IHL) for the San Diego Gulls and Las Vegas Thunder. He had a career record of 141 wins, 130 losses, 45 ties, 12 shutouts, and an .885 salvage percentage.

Malarchuk fabricated his NHL debut with the Nordiques on December 13, 1981, getting the showtime in goal in a route game against the Buffalo Sabres. The Nordiques were dissatisfied with back-up goaltender Michel Plasse at the time and decided to give Malarchuk a wait, in spite of his immature historic period (he had just turned 20 a few months earlier). He did well enough in his first game, a 4–iv tie, but the second ane, two days later, was a lot tougher, as he faced the defending Stanley Cup champions, the New York Islanders. The Nordiques favored a wide-open fashion of play at the fourth dimension, and Malarchuk was left largely to his ain devices and faced 37 shots, letting 10 goals past him, in a wild 10–7 loss, in what was the highest scoring game in the history of the Nassau Coliseum.^[3] Having failed his audition, he was returned to the American Hockey League after that game and did not come back until the following flavor. Quebec traded Plasse to the Hartford Whalers later that season in render for John Garrett, addressing the squad's need for a reliable back-up goaltender for Dan Bouchard.

Malarchuk played sparingly in the NHL the next two seasons, then not at all in 1984–85, as he spent the majority of these three years with the Fredericton Express in the AHL. He became the Nordiques' master goaltender in 1985–86, keeping the job for two seasons, although there was continual controversy over whether he or local favorite Mario Gosselin should be the starter. In a statistical quirk, during the 1984 NHL Playoffs, he was not credited with a game played but still was assessed with 15 penalisation minutes. In Game 6 of the Adams Division Finals against the Montreal Canadiens on April twenty, he was handed both a major penalty and a game misconduct for leaving his team's bench to take function in an on-ice brawl. He was traded to the Washington Capitals after the 1986–87 season alongside Dale Hunter in return for Gaétan Duchesne, Alan Haworth and a outset-circular choice in the 1987 NHL Entry Draft that eventually landed the Nordiques Joe Sakic. So, on March 6, 1989, Malarchuk was traded to the Buffalo Sabres along with Grant Ledyard and a 1991 6th round option (Brian Holzinger) in exchange for Calle Johansson and a 1989 2d-round pick (Byron Dafoe).^[four] It was sixteen days later in but his sixth game with the Sabres that Malarchuk would endure a notorious life-threatening cervix injury.

Cervix injury [edit]

During a game between the visiting St. Louis Blues and Malarchuk'south Buffalo Sabres on March 22, 1989, Steve Tuttle of the Blues and Uwe Krupp of the Sabres crashed difficult into the goal crease during play. As they collided, Tuttle'south skate blade striking the right front end side of Malarchuk'due south neck, severing his carotid artery and partially cutting his jugular vein.^[2]

With blood gushing out of Malarchuk's cervix onto the water ice, he was able to go out the ice on his own feet with the aid of his team's athletic trainer, Jim Pizzutelli.^[v] Many spectators were physically sickened by the sight. The excessive corporeality of claret that Malarchuk lost caused eleven fans to faint, ii more to have heart attacks, and three players to vomit on the ice.^[vi] Local television cameras covering the game cut away from the sight of Malarchuk haemorrhage afterwards noticing what had happened, and Sabres announcers Ted Darling and Mike Robitaille were audibly shaken. At the production room of the national cable sports highlight show, a producer scrolled his tape back to show the event to two other producers, who were both horrified past the sight.^[7]

Malarchuk, meanwhile, believed that he was going to die. "All I wanted to do was go off the ice", said Malarchuk. "My mother was watching the game on Goggle box, and I didn't want her to see me die."^[6] Aware that his female parent had been watching the game on TV, he had an equipment director call and tell her he loved her. And so he asked for a priest.

Malarchuk's life was saved due to quick action by the Sabres' able-bodied trainer, Jim Pizzutelli, a former US Regular army combat medic who served in the Vietnam War. He gripped Malarchuk's neck and pinched off the artery, not letting go until doctors arrived to brainstorm stabilizing the wound. He led Malarchuk off the water ice then practical farthermost pressure level by kneeling on his collarbone—a procedure designed to produce a low animate charge per unit and low metabolic state, which is preferable to exsanguination. Malarchuk was witting and talking on the way to the hospital, and jokingly asked paramedics if they could bring him back in fourth dimension for the tertiary menstruation.^[i] The game resumed when league personnel received word that Malarchuk was in stable status.^[eight]

Malarchuk lost one.five litres of claret.^[9] It took doctors a total of 300 stitches to close the six-inch wound.^[ten] He was back on the ice in ten days.

On February 10, 2008, coincidentally again in Buffalo, Florida Panthers forward Richard Zedník suffered an injury similar to Malarchuk's afterwards Olli Jokinen's skate blade cutting the front of Zedník's cervix, lacerating his common carotid artery,^[11] causing firsthand massive claret loss. Although Malarchuk initially refused to view the footage, upon viewing information technology, he was taken aback,^{[12] [13]} saying that he didn't think his retention of his ain incident would come dorsum afterwards nearly 20 years. He sought treatment for mail service-traumatic stress disorder the post-obit twelvemonth.

Later career [edit]

Malarchuk'due south operation declined over the next few years until he decided to leave the NHL. After this, he struggled with obsessive-compulsive disorder (as he had since a immature age), every bit well as nightmares and alcoholism, only he remained in pro hockey in the International Hockey League. In 1992–93, Malarchuk was a goaltender for the IHL'southward San Diego Gulls and played in the league title.^[xiv] The following flavor he became starting goaltender for the Las Vegas Thunder, appearing in 56 games and accumulating a record of 34–10–vii. His jersey number was retired by the Thunder and hangs from the rafters of the Thomas & Mack Heart.

Coaching career [edit]

Afterward retiring as a player, Malarchuk continued his career in ice hockey every bit a jitney. Malarchuk served equally head jitney and assistant general director of the Las Vegas Thunder in the 1998–99 season and the Idaho Steelheads until 2000. Afterwards he was a goaltending double-decker for the NHL Florida Panthers during the 2002–03 flavour. He was signed as the goaltending coach for 2006–07 by the Columbus Blue Jackets. In August 2010 Malarchuk agreed to become the goaltending consultant for the Atlanta Thrashers.^[15] On June 17, 2011, Calgary Flames announced hiring Malarchuk equally their goaltender omnibus.^[16] On June 17, 2014, the Calgary Flames appear they parted ways with Malarchuk and were searching for a new goaltending coach. He had earlier taken exit during the 2013–14 flavour to enter the National Hockey League's substance abuse treatment program.^{[17] [18] [19]}

Personal life [edit]

Malarchuk is of Ukrainian descent.

Later on his playing career, Malarchuk settled on a ranch nigh Carson City, Nevada (later on Gardnerville, Nevada), where he and his wife at the time raised 3 kids. In mid-2000, he became certified as a veterinary technician and runs a exercise as a horse dentist from his ranch.^{[ commendation needed ]} A visiting photographer once had his photographic camera flash stolen by Malarchuk's emus.^[20]

Malarchuk's nickname in hockey was "the Cowboy Goalie" considering he was active in the Calgary, Alberta-expanse rodeo scene during the hockey off-season. He was depicted riding bareback in a front-page paper photo while playing for the Washington Capitals, and he was subsequently given horses as a contractual bonus with the Las Vegas Thunder. He besides credited his cowboy upbringing for his toughness when returning to play for the Buffalo Sabres.^[19]

Malarchuk released an autobiography chosen The Crazy Game in November 2014. In the U.s. the book was published with the title A Matter of Inches—How I Survived In The Crease And Beyond.^{[19] [21]} The book appeared on the Toronto Star bestsellers list through Jan 2015.^[22] and was fabricated into a documentary film.^{[23] [24]}

Following its release, Clint and Joan Malarchuk were public speakers nearly topics covered in the book such as obsessive-compulsive disorder, support for alcoholics in recovery, suicide prevention, and psychological trauma. On May seven, 2015, Malarchuk was a guest speaker at a Canadian Mental Health Association meeting in Oakville, Ontario.^[25] On August 1, 2015, Clint and Joan Malarchuk were keynote speakers at the International OCD Foundation conference in Boston, Massachusetts.^[26] They showed the video footage of his sports injury to the audience with the advice that it is potentially triggering to people who are uncomfortable with images of claret and trauma.^[27] Malarchuk and his married woman at present travel and engage in a number of league-related and independent events having to practise with mental health, OCD, and depression in retired athletes.^[28]

Gun incident [edit]

On October 7, 2008, Malarchuk suffered what, according to his wife Joan, was a cocky-inflicted gunshot wound to his chin from a .22 caliber rifle at his residence in Fish Springs, Nevada, after a catamenia of stress and domestic problems. The incident was initially described equally an blow while hunting rabbits,^{[29] [30]} but both Malarchuk and his wife accept since admitted it was a suicide try.^[31] On October 10, 2008, The Douglas County, Nevada sheriff's investigation ended the shooting was accidental under suspicious circumstances, but afterward Joan Malarchuk said she unequivocally told the sheriff it was a suicide attempt "so that he would become the help he needed."

Officers and paramedics at the scene reported that Malarchuk, who was haemorrhage from both his mouth and mentum, was uncooperative and refused treatment. Joan Malarchuk said she saturday with her hubby and comforted him considering she was agape he would lash out once again and become shot past police.^[21] Malarchuk was later flown to Renown Regional Medical Eye in Reno for handling and released less than a calendar week after the shooting. He then spent approximately vi months in a rehab infirmary being treated for alcoholism, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and mail service-traumatic stress disorder.^[9]

The Canadian Printing reported that Joan Malarchuk informed authorities that her married man was not supposed to consume booze as he was on prescription medications for obsessive-compulsive disorder, but was doing so anyway at the time of the shooting.^{[32] [33]} Malarchuk later said he believed he was overmedicated dating dorsum to when he was prescribed an anti-psychotic allaying while playing pro hockey in San Diego.^[26]

Career statistics [edit]

Regular season and playoffs [edit]

				Regular season										Playoffs
Season	Team	League		GP	Due west	L	T	MIN	GA	SO	GAA	SV%		GP	W	Fifty	MIN	GA	SO	GAA	SV%
1977–78	Fort Saskatchewan Traders	AJHL		33	23	9	1	2015	157	1	4.67	—		—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1978–79	Fort Saskatchewan Traders	AJHL		52	36	fifteen	ane	3030	204	i	four.04	—		—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1978–79	Portland Wintertime Hawks	WHL		2	2	0	0	120	4	0	two.00	—		—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1979–80	Portland Winter Hawks	WHL		37	21	10	0	1948	147	0	4.53	.875		1	0	0	twoscore	3	0	iv.fifty	—
1980–81	Portland Winter Hawks	WHL		38	28	viii	0	2235	142	iii	3.81	.893		5	3	2	307	21	0	iv.10	—
1981–82	Quebec Nordiques	NHL		2	0	i	one	120	xiv	0	seven.00	.788		—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1981–82	Fredericton Express	AHL		51	15	34	2	2906	247	0	5.ten	—		—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1982–83	Quebec Nordiques	NHL		15	8	5	2	900	71	0	4.63	.863		—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1982–83	Fredericton Express	AHL		25	14	6	v	1506	78	0	3.11	.905		—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1983–84	Quebec Nordiques	NHL		23	ten	9	2	1215	80	0	3.95	.865		—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1983–84	Fredericton Express	AHL		11	5	5	1	663	40	0	iii.62	.894		—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1984–85	Fredericton Limited	AHL		56	26	25	four	3347	198	two	3.55	.885		6	2	four	379	20	0	3.17	—
1985–86	Quebec Nordiques	NHL		46	26	12	four	2657	142	4	3.21	.895		3	0	ii	143	xi	0	iv.62	.864
1986–87	Quebec Nordiques	NHL		54	xviii	26	ix	3092	175	1	three.xl	.884		3	0	two	140	8	0	3.43	.857
1987–88	Washington Capitals	NHL		54	24	xx	4	2924	154	iv	iii.16	.885		four	0	2	193	fifteen	0	4.65	.842
1988–89	Washington Capitals	NHL		42	16	18	7	2428	141	1	3.48	.877		—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1988–89	Buffalo Sabres	NHL		7	3	i	1	326	13	i	2.39	.908		1	0	1	59	five	0	five.07	.844
1989–90	Buffalo Sabres	NHL		29	xiv	eleven	ii	1596	89	0	three.35	.903		—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1990–91	Buffalo Sabres	NHL		37	12	14	ten	2131	119	one	3.35	.891		4	2	2	246	17	0	4.fifteen	.853
1991–92	Buffalo Sabres	NHL		29	x	13	3	1639	102	0	3.73	.887		—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1991–92	Rochester Americans	AHL		ii	2	0	0	120	3	1	one.l	.947		—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1992–93	San Diego Gulls	IHL		27	17	3	3	1516	72	iii	2.85	.891		12	6	4	668	34	0	three.05	—
1993–94	Las Vegas Thunder	IHL		55	34	10	7	3076	172	one	iii.35	.892		five	1	3	257	16	0	three.74	—
1994–95	Las Vegas Thunder	IHL		38	15	thirteen	three	2039	127	0	3.74	.883		2	0	0	32	2	0	3.seventy	—
1995–96	Las Vegas Thunder	IHL		one	0	0	0	four	0	0	0.00	1.000		—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1996–97	Las Vegas Thunder	IHL		3	one	i	0	63	vi	0	five.63	.833		—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
NHL totals				338	141	130	45	19,028	1100	12	three.47	.885		15	ii	ix	782	56	0	4.xxx	.853

Run into also [edit]

• Exsanguination

References [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b} SN Magazine: Clint Malarchuk, The Survivor
2. ^ ^{a b} "Bleeding Out". The Players' Tribune. March 22, 2018. Retrieved Dec 27, 2019.
3. ^ "Islanders Downward Nordiques, 10–7 The New York Times, Dec. 16, 1981". nytimes.com. 1981-12-16. Retrieved 2017-11-xviii .
4. ^ "Clint Malarchuk trades – NHL Merchandise Tracker".
5. ^ Video of Malarchuk injury at YouTube.com (Warning: Graphic),[1]
6. ^ ^{a b} "Zednik's injury brings Malarchuk's own nightmare back to surface, ESPN.com, Feb. 12, 2008". Sports.espn.get.com. 2008-02-12. Retrieved 2013-04-01 .
7. ^ Cutthroat reminds Sportscenter veterans of gruesome injury
8. ^ Mike Foligno goal, 6:27, 2nd Menstruum, St. Louis Blues at Buffalo Sabres, March 22, 1989
9. ^ ^{a b} "Clint Malarchuk suffered a horrific sporting injury. But PTSD put his life in peril again, decades later". CBC. Jan 17, 2019. Retrieved December 15, 2019.
10. ^ Burnside, Scott (2005-eleven-22). "Other NHL on-ice scares". espn.com . Retrieved 2007-11-06 .
11. ^ Bisson, Leslie J.; Sanders, Samuel M.; Noor, Sonya; Curl, Richard; McCormack, Robert (2009). "Common Carotid Avenue Laceration in a Professional Hockey Player". The American Journal of Sports Medicine. 37 (11): 2249–2251. doi:10.1177/0363546509335190. PMID 19556467. S2CID 36461296.
12. ^ Near two decades later, Clint Malarchuk all the same haunted by his ain gory injury, Associated Press, Feb. 12, 2008
13. ^ Documentary focuses on former Steelheads jitney's gruesome injury, recovery, Idaho Statesman, May 29, 2013 ^{[ permanent dead link ]}
14. ^ "Komets shocked the hockey world, Fort Wayne News-Sentinel, May 22, 2013". Archived from the original on October 31, 2013. Retrieved February 26, 2014.
15. ^ "Thrashers Proper name Clint Malarchuk Goaltending Consultant". 2010-08-nineteen. Archived from the original on 2010-08-23. Retrieved 2013-04-01 .
16. ^ "Flames name Malarchuk goaltender omnibus, Snowfall director of video assay – Calgary Flames – News". Flames.nhl.com. 2011-06-17. Retrieved 2013-04-01 .
17. ^ "Calgary Flames in market for goaltending motorcoach". Archived from the original on 2015-x-03. Retrieved 2015-10-02 .
18. ^ Flames part ways with Clint Malarchuk
19. ^ ^{a b c} Saved: How I Survived My Life In Hockey, past Clint Malarchuk with Dan Robson
20. ^ Malarchuk at long last has his life under control, St. Louis Postal service-Dispatch, March 12, 1995
21. ^ ^{a b} Clint Malarchuk The Cowboy Goalie talks almost the struggles in his life
22. ^ Toronto Star Bestsellers List, January 30, 2015
23. ^ Goalie: Life and Expiry in the Pucker – The Cyberspace Movie Database
24. ^ Goalie: Life and Death in the Crease – motion-picture show trailer ^{[ permanent dead link ]}
25. ^ Malarchuk lives to tell the tale of devastating furnishings of mental illness, Oakville Beaver, May ix, 2015
26. ^ ^{a b} YouTube video of Clint and Joan Malarchuk speaking to International OCD Foundation, Boston, MA, Aug. i, 2015, eight:00 a.one thousand. in a large room with 1,700 people in information technology
27. ^ Official Website of the 22nd Almanac OCD Briefing
28. ^ Clint Malarchuk on his infamous injury and contesting depression. Grandstand Central. June 4, 2019
29. ^ Ex-hockey star shoots self in mentum, The Tape Courier, Oct viii, 2008
30. ^ O'Connor, Joe. "NHL: Malarchuk shoots himself in chin" in The National Post. October 09, 2008 ^{[ permanent dead link ]}
31. ^ ""I'yard Walking Around with a Bullet in My Head and a Scar on My Cervix": Clint Malarchuk, at 50".
32. ^ "The Canadian Press. Probe Into Onetime NHL Goalie Malarchuk Concludes. Oct 10, 2008". Archived from the original on 2012-10-20. Retrieved 2018-eleven-29 .
33. ^ Gilbertson, Wes. "Ex-goalie injured in gun accident." The Calgary Dominicus. Oct x, 2008. Archived October 11, 2008, at archive.today

External links [edit]

• Biographical information and career statistics from NHL.com, or Eliteprospects.com, or The Internet Hockey Database
• Bleeding Out, essay past Malarchuk on the long-term side effects of the 1989 incident

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