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Healing Continues To This Day
by Paul on 03/21/10 at 08:31 AM ET
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from Mike Wagner of the Columbus Dispatch,
The brown-eyed, blond-haired eighth-grade cheerleader held up the hockey puck when her family walked into the hospital room.
“Papaw, look,” she said to her grandfather, “I got a souvenir.”
Brittanie Cecil lifted the puck, the one that had struck her in the head as she attended her first National Hockey League game.
The puck flew into the stands at Nationwide Arena when Blue Jackets center Espen Knutsen struck a routine slap shot against the Calgary Flames on March 16, 2002. The puck ricocheted off an opposing player’s stick and struck 13-year-old Brittanie.
Two days later, Brittanie was dead. Knutsen was left sobbing in the Blue Jackets’ locker room, his career beginning to unravel from the emotional fallout.
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Sad to hear that all these years later Knutsen is still haunted by the accident. What an awful thing to feel responsibility for.
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 03/21/10 at 02:32 PM ET
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Probably one of the hardest articles to read that I’ve read all year.
Posted by Alan from Atlanta on 03/21/10 at 12:56 PM ET