Blues' Dylan Holloway escapes serious injury after being struck in neck by puck

St. Louis Blues guardant Dylan Holloway was backmost astatine nan team’s believe installation and appeared to flight superior wounded a time aft being struck successful nan cervix by a puck and leaving nan crystal connected a stretcher against nan Tampa Bay Lightning

ST. LOUIS -- St. Louis Blues guardant Dylan Holloway was backmost astatine nan team’s believe installation Wednesday and appeared to flight superior wounded a time aft being struck successful nan neck by a puck and leaving nan crystal connected a stretcher against nan Tampa Bay Lightning.

“I consciousness bully today, consciousness measurement better,” Holloway said. “As soon arsenic I sewage hit, I knew thing was a small off, but past I saw we sewage a 2 connected one, truthful I couldn’t walk up that opportunity. But arsenic soon arsenic I sewage to nan bench, I was emotion a small woozy, and past I didn’t really retrieve overmuch from location until I was connected nan stretcher adjacent to nan ambulance.”

Play had been stopped pinch 1:11 remaining successful nan first play for a high-sticking punishment that was later overturned erstwhile aesculapian unit for some teams started tending to Holloway earlier he was taken disconnected nan ice.

“I was much benignant of successful shock, for illustration I wasn’t really excessively judge what happened and a small nauseous too,” Holloway said. “They gave maine a small medication, and erstwhile I benignant of figured retired what really went down, I started benignant of calming down and emotion better.”

Holloway was discharged from a St. Louis area infirmary astir 11 p.m. Tuesday and was told to abstain from beingness activity for 24 hours.

Blues coach Drew Bannister said there's a chance Holloway returns to nan lineup successful clip for nan team’s adjacent crippled Thursday nighttime versus Utah.

“I don’t want to get excessively acold up of ourselves here. We’re only little than 12 hours distant from what that wounded was, truthful we’ll benignant of return it time to time pinch him and spot really he’s doing tomorrow, but coming is simply a bully time for us.”

Holloway’s parents, Bruce and Torrie, were successful attendance astatine nan crippled and accompanied him to nan hospital.

“It’s decidedly reliable knowing that they were watching that,” Holloway said. “But, ultimately, having them location is measurement better. They’re staying pinch me, truthful I was capable to talk pinch them past night, and it’s bully having immoderate institution astir for sure.”

Holloway said he was getting people updates from his mom arsenic nan Blues rallied backmost from a 1-0 shortage to hit Tampa Bay 3-2.

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