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General Manager of New Jersey Devils Tom Fitzgerald Makes changes on the skate floor after his son’s neck was sliced by ice skating during a hockey game.
“They rushed him right into the locker room. All we got was, ‘The bleeding is under control and is on his way to hospital,'” said Fitzgerald, 56, in an interview with Espnat It was announced on Tuesday, March 18. “And they had a team of 12 or 14 people waiting for him when he got there. My wife was a mess.
Tom’s son Casey Fitzgerald The Captain of the Wolf Hartford Package is NHL’s development team for the New York Rangers. During a match in December 2024, Casey was tied into a play. Although the injury was not evident at first, when Casey was coming off the ice, an opposing player noted that his neck was bleeding.
“They were showing (the play) and there was another angle that I was told. I didn’t want to see that angle,” Tom remembered. “The only angle I saw was the one I watched (before) and you couldn’t see (the cut) really. The more I spoke, the more I started being choked a little wondering how lucky we are. I get tagged up now. It’s hard. I don’t want any parent to go through. You don’t understand.”
NHL player Anthony Richard was in a freak accident on the ice when he went skating to the surface. As the New York keepers faced against the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday, January 23, Rangers defender K’andre Miller kicked Flyers on Richard, 28, inadvertently in his face. In instant replay pictures spread on -lein, (…)
Casey ended Have 25 stitches and make a full recovery. He returned to the skating floor three days later. While Casey is right now, Tom has a new perspective. The hockey executive does not want any other parent to go through what his family did.
“We’re very lucky,” Tom shared. “But why the players don’t think a big picture against righteous, it’s about (their) career today? If they’ve ever thought of their parents watching what we were watching, they would think differently.”
Since the incident has acted to help prevent the security issue. Tom is the only GM hockey on the NHL cutting resistance committee. In addition to Tom, the group contains a higher VP of NHL hockey operations Kris kingVp of hockey operations The sex of the PascaMembers of the NHL Players Association and team equipment managers.
As a member of the committee, Tom has helped to put ideas on how to protect players.
“The first thing I thought about was the jaw guard,” explains Tom. “If you can mandate players to least get the two fingers rule (of a comment under their jaw), would Kevlar’s jaw guard stop (the worst of it for Casey)? I don’t know if it would have stopped it all, but only such ideas. And a prototype is done as we talk.”
The father of Johnny and Matthew Gaureau, Guy Gaureau, struck the ice with the Philadelphia Flyers. He served Guy, who trained his sons growing up, as a guest trainer during the Flyers Training Camp practice in Voorhees, New Jersey, on Monday, September 23. He was invited by head coach John Tortorella, who attended the funerals of Johnny and (…)
While many of the protective equipment is optional For athletes At present, Tom has offered the men of a anxious parent thinking perspective.
“My message was justified, ‘Tell the players you don’t want your parents to possibly go through something like this,” he told the outlet. “(It’s) scary. Give as much protection as you can possibly because you’re going to stop playing at some point, and you’re going to have to live the rest of your life. So live it.”
