American hockey participant Adam Johnson has died after a "freak accident" throughout a sport in England on Saturday, his membership mentioned.The 29-year-old Minnesota native was enjoying for the Nottingham Panthers in a Problem Cup sport towards the Sheffield Steelers when he suffered a slashed neck through the second interval of the sport at Sheffield's Utilita …
American hockey participant Adam Johnson has died after a “freak accident” throughout a sport in England on Saturday, his membership mentioned.
The 29-year-old Minnesota native was enjoying for the Nottingham Panthers in a Problem Cup sport towards the Sheffield Steelers when he suffered a slashed neck through the second interval of the sport at Sheffield’s Utilita Area.
“The Nottingham Panthers are really devastated to announce that Adam Johnson has tragically handed away following a freak accident on the sport in Sheffield final evening,” the workforce mentioned Sunday morning.
“The Panthers wish to ship our ideas and condolences to Adam’s household, his companion, and all his associates at this extraordinarily troublesome time. Everybody on the membership together with gamers, employees, administration and possession are heartbroken on the information of Adam’s passing.”
Minnesota-born Johnson performed for the Pittsburg Penguins within the Nationwide Hockey League earlier than spending the 2020-21 season in Sweden with the Malmo Redhawks.
He went on to play within the AHL for the Ontario Reign and in Germany for the Augsburg Panther earlier than agreeing to affix Nottingham for the 2023-24 marketing campaign.
“Our ideas are additionally with the followers and employees of each golf equipment, particularly those that attended or have been following the sport, who can be devastated following at the moment’s information,” the workforce added.
“The Panthers wish to thank everybody who rushed to assist Adam final evening in essentially the most testing of circumstances. Adam, our quantity 47, was not solely an excellent ice hockey participant, but additionally an amazing teammate and an unbelievable individual along with his complete life forward of him. The membership will dearly miss him and can by no means ever neglect him.”
The UK Elite League introduced that the three video games scheduled for Sunday in Belfast, Fife and Guildford have been postponed following Johnson’s loss of life.
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