NySPORTS Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 New here so not sure where to post this. Gripped the hearts of many. The kid who 11 seconds into his Boston Terrier career crashed into the boards neck first. Skating again in heaven http://www.bu.edu/articles/2020/travis-roy-obituary/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 This is the right place for it. RIP. Sent from my iPhone using Blueshirts Brotherhood mobile app powered by Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keirik Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 Jeez that was 1995? I remember that. So sad. Hope he has eternal peace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 Ugh. So young. RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morphinity 2.0 Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 Tweet: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsrangers Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 Heartbreaking story from beginning to end. RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsley Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 So sad. RIP. Sent from my iPhone using Blueshirts Brotherhood mobile app powered by Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaveByRichter35 Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 I remember his 30 for 30 being pretty gutwrenching. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josh Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 I remember when his injury happened. It was all over the news the next day and my mom was desperately trying to keep me from seeing it. I still remember that morning. I ended up following his path, the creation of the foundation and everything he tried to do. Thinking of him laying on his back, telling his dad “I made it” still gets me. We should all strive to be that strong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sod16 Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 Yes, the most heart rendering part of all of this is that he realized what had happened immediately and said to his Dad, "I made it, I played D1" while lying on the ice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puck Head Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 I remember that moment vividly. Unfortunately I?ve been involved with two more instances like that. First was a few months after this when Erik Drygas (CCHA) went head first into the boards during practice and i was a few feet away. He was paralyzed from chest down and wheel chair bound to this day. Eric and I coached high school against each other for rival schools and was always proud of all the accomplished. Some years after that we had a opposing high school player take a header into the boards on our bench. I just so happened to be first man on the head and had to keep stabilized until he was moved into ambulance. Although he never played again, he was walking within a year. Sent from my iPhone using Blueshirts Brotherhood mobile app powered by Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vodka Drunkenski Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 Ugh I remember this accident, so sad RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunny Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 Very sad, very impactful. 3 kids on my team at the time showed up with football style neck supports the next week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharpshooter Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 I wasn't a hockey fan at the time this occurred, but I remember hearing about it, and I became more informed about the whole situation when I started getting into hockey more later in the decade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josh Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 Very sad, very impactful. 3 kids on my team at the time showed up with football style neck supports the next week. The next 2 seasons, there was a father that was a paramedic on our team. Anytime a kid hit his head or went awkwardly into the boards, they took them off on a stretcher. We had a tournament where we "lost" 4 kids... and I still didnt get ice time. They were all being extremely cautious about these injuries after the traumatic Roy incident. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunny Posted October 31, 2020 Share Posted October 31, 2020 It was the birth of the STOP sign on the back of jerseys, wasn't it? I can't quite recall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puck Head Posted October 31, 2020 Share Posted October 31, 2020 It was the birth of the STOP sign on the back of jerseys, wasn't it? I can't quite recall. That was a Canadian thing. I remember coaching in the Richmond Invitational in 97 or so and all the kids asking wtf that was. Sent from my iPhone using Blueshirts Brotherhood mobile app powered by Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puck Head Posted October 31, 2020 Share Posted October 31, 2020 It was the birth of the STOP sign on the back of jerseys, wasn't it? I can't quite recall. Just before I think ?The STOP patch looks identical to a regular street stop sign. This concept was founded in 1995 by Kevin Stubbington, a longtime Canadian coach and referee. Watching one of his own 13-year old players take a brutal hit from behind that sent him crashing into the boards was his inspiration for the STOP campaign. He first pitched the STOP patch concept to cut down on the dangerous incidences of checking from behind. His premise was that if kids can see the stop sign on another player?s jersey, they know they shouldn?t check that player because they are vulnerable to injury. Most spinal cord injuries occur on checks from behind to an unsuspecting player. The program quickly grew and was adopted throughout Canada and then spread to other parts of North America? https://www.fairbankshockey.org/akgrizzlies/2019/stop-program/ Sent from my iPhone using Blueshirts Brotherhood mobile app powered by Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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