quasimodo. 🐌

cheese lover. weird is relative. stars fan forever.

[chelsea @chelseaax16]

missing my close and personal friend the dallas stars today

[Morbid Knowledge @MorbidKnowledge]

Brittanie Cecil is the only fan fatality in NHL history.

On 16 March 2002, David and Jody Cecil took their thirteen-year-old daughter Brittanie to see the Columbus Blue Jackets play the Calgary Flames at Nationwide Arena.

The tickets were an early birthday present, she was turning fourteen in four days. They had good seats, fifteen rows up behind the goal.

About eight minutes into the second period, Blue Jackets forward Espen Knutsen took a shot that was deflected at the last moment by Calgary defenseman Derek Morris.

The puck sailed over the protective glass at roughly 100 miles per hour and struck Brittanie in the left temple, snapping her head back violently.

She got up and walked out of the arena under her own power, a coat pressed to her head. The game carried on. The Blue Jackets won. Fans went home happy.

At the hospital, a CT scan was performed but failed to detect that she had a torn vertebral artery.

She appeared to be recovering, she was still communicative, still holding the puck that had hit her while sitting in her hospital bed.

Everyone assumed it was a scare. A bad one, but a scare.

On 18 March 2002, Brittanie Cecil died at 5:15pm after developing a high fever and losing consciousness.

The torn artery had caused severe clotting and her brain had swollen.

She was the first and only fan fatality in 85 years of NHL history. The netting you now see hanging above the glass behind the goals at every hockey rink in the world exists because of Brittanie Cecil.

The player who took the original shot, Espen Knutsen, was never the same. His coach said the incident ended his career.

He retired three years later having played just 45 more games. He told reporters he thought about it all the time.

[NHL @NHL]

ROBO WITH A ROCKET 🚀

[quasimodo. 🐌 @shuggityboogs]

@srslycereal Y'all don't have a cafeteria??

[quasimodo. 🐌 @shuggityboogs]

Hey @victoryplustv shut the fuck up and play the game please.

[Theodore Allen III @Theothethird91]

that was the most unselfish play by 20 year wyatt johnston. good for you kid 👏🏻

[Big Head Hockey @bigheadhcky]

Shots right now:

8 — Wyatt Johnston
4 — the entire Colorado Avalanche team combined

Johnston is 20 years old.

[Dallas Stars @DallasStars]

Lately we've been dressing for revenge.

[Dallas Stars @DallasStars]

THE DALLAS STARS ARE THE 2023-2024 CENTRAL DIVISION CHAMPIONS!

CUE THE CONFETTI! 🎉

#TexasHockey

[DJ @TxForever]

Actually makes me sad that there’s gonna be a generation of Stars fans that don’t get to experience Razor when the Stars play.

Ralph and Razor were iconic. #TexasHockey

[Dallas Stars @DallasStars]

Vintage 🤩

[quasimodo. 🐌 @shuggityboogs]

@xJDMMAx Womp womp

[Dallas Stars @DallasStars]

X - DALLAS STARS

See y'all in the Stanley Cup Playoffs!

#TexasHockey

[Dallas Stars @DallasStars]

Y'all remember how we scored 10 last season?

@TXUEnergy | #TexasHockey

[S Λ Μ @sighsamuel]

Mood

[S Λ Μ @sighsamuel]

So according to Minnesota logic… those 7 goals have all been gifted by the refs? Doesn’t have to do with them being shit at hockey?

[Dallas Stars @DallasStars]

QUACK! STARS WIN!

@ATT | #TexasHockey

[Natalie G @Natalie81582995]

@DallasStars @budlight Amazing but why couldn’t we watch this 😢