Winnipeg Jets defenceman Zach Redmond suffered a “wide” skate cut to his leg during the team’s morning practice Thursday in advance of their game versus the Hurricanes at Carolina’s PNC Arena.
Hurricanes beat reporter Chip Alexander, who witnessed the injury, tweeted the following:
Jets have suffered freak injury late in skate. Player suffered a cut leg.
— Chip Alexander (@ice_chip) February 21, 2013
Player said to be Zach Redmond. Being attended to on ice.
— Chip Alexander (@ice_chip) February 21, 2013
Ambulance has arrived. Redmond will be transported to hospital. A number of Jets players, coaches gathered around him.
— Chip Alexander (@ice_chip) February 21, 2013
Noel says Redmond fell and another player stepped on back of leg near knee
— Chip Alexander (@ice_chip) February 21, 2013
Noel said it was a “fairly wide cut” and that Redmond lost a lot of blood. Said Redmond was coherent and “will be fine.”
— Chip Alexander (@ice_chip) February 21, 2013
Redmond has been taken to the hospital for treatment after “a large pool of blood” was created by the wound:
Redmond has been taken by ambulance to hospital and there is a large pool of blood on the ice. All #NHLJets players, personnel in shock
— Ken Wiebe (@WiebeSunSports) February 21, 2013
#NHLJets head coach Claude Noel said Redmond was cut above his knee after falling to ice, but was coherent and responsive which is good news
— Ken Wiebe (@WiebeSunSports) February 21, 2013
The 24-year-old Redmond, a native of Houston, Texas drafted out of Michigan’s Ferris State University, has played eight games in his rookie season with the Jets. He has scored one goal, three assists and taken 12 minutes in penalties.
“These things happen,” Jets coach Claude Noel told Alexander of newsobserver.com. “We were trying to get our extra players conditioned and it was a one-one-one battle at the net where (Redmond) tripped up and landed on his back and a player happened to step on him.
“He cut him just above the back of the knee. It’s a fairly wide cut and he’ll need to be taken to the hospital. He lost a fair amount of blood quickly. It looks like it was a vein. They got it tied up and pressure on it, but he’ll be fine.”
#NHLJets Zach Redmond suffered cut to back of leg above knee at practice. He was taken by ambulance to hospital & is currently in surgery.
— Scott Brown (@BrownScottTN) February 21, 2013
As I suspected, #NHLJets confirm Redmond was wearing Kevlar socks this morning and the skate cut was above the coverage of them
— Ken Wiebe (@WiebeSunSports) February 21, 2013
Brief update – #nhljets @zachredmond24 is out of surgery and stable in recovery room #bn
— gary lawless (@garylawless) February 21, 2013
