Definitely scary sh*t!! A junior (or possibly high school) player died this year, I believe not too long ago, with the same type of injury and he had a neck guard on (although with the intensity of the shot, a guard wouldn't help....more for protection from having one's throat slit). Out west I think it happened. I heard on the pregame that the B-Sens trainer considered performing a tracheotomy at the rink due to the difficulties Wiercioch had with breathing!!! Hopefully, he will recover fully from this. Very scary.........