Jiri Fischer

[realbeetlejuice]

I cried watching this...

[woodsbla]

@realbeetlejuice me too

[modeltowner1]

go wings!

[TheHutch54321]

I was there, it was crazy

[Zuelchy18]

@sooners164318 fuck off

[igotapickle88]

i was at this game and i was like 7 and i only remeber was a guy scream GET A F***ING AMBULANCE OUT HERE and when one did come it would not fit through where the zambonies came out of

[mArIoGaMeR100]

JK!

[mArIoGaMeR100]

play at 0:12 and watch the wings bench

[edw700]

@mArIoGaMeR100 You're right man, right into the moment.

[CoreyPerrySucks]

@mr0zip0 Dude i'm a Wings fan, I'M just going by what I heard

[goblew14]

He was a great player and had a bright future and would still be playing for them if this didn't happen

[Michigan1985]

"Jiří Fischer (born July 31, 1980) is a former professional ice hockey defenceman in the National Hockey League (NHL). Fischer went into cardiac arrest in a November 2005 game, and subsequently retired due to his heart problems. Fischer is currently director of player development for the Detroit Red Wings, the team for whom he played." -Wikipedia

[CoreyPerrySucks]

Jirir Fischer had actually died before paramedics revived him. I miss him, I hope hes doing well these days.

[Groudon92]

@CoreyPerrySucks yeah he didn't die

[Grabefruit]

@CoreyPerrySucks bullshit, hes alive, but he ended his hockey carrier.

[CoreyPerrySucks]

@Grabefruit , Ummm, I know hes alive, but people are able to be revived from death, as long as its shortly after they collapse

[MarioLemieux66Zepper]

That also happend with Alexei Cherepanov... What a boy he was...

I never forgot that day, when he die.....

[11CUPS13]

Jiri will be a Red Wing for life. He has a job with them now that he really enjoys.

[x30xSabresFan]

@11CUPS13 and then they trade him, OPPS! Thats what the Sabres do sorry.

[GalaxyTrigger82]

i was at this game it sucked.

[JFiannaca]

Saw this live. Scary stuff

[llSgtScopell]

If you listen closely at 1:18 you can hear the Red Wing medics and Pred trainer talking about what happened..."What happened", "He just collapsed", "Thats it just collapsed?!", "Yes!"

[CourtyardPigeon]

seeing the CPR is scary

[ThaOneChrisJONES]

Im happy that Jiri was alright, I had a couple of Seizers when I was a kid and trust me it's not fun waking up and having no clue why your in a hospital.

[REDWINGSCHICK]

i remember watching this on tv as if it happened tonight.

[EMUmonster]

I know how Jiri feels. I was lifting weights in the gym this past January when my heart rate sped up dramatically and wouldnt come down even after I sat . I realized I was in trouble so got in the car and raced home. Told my grandma to call 911 so by the time they came my heart rate went down after like 15 minutes. They took me to the hospital and I stayed overnight. They did the stress test and took x rays but never could tell me why it happened. Ever since I still run everyday but no weights.

[Torgo1969]

As a survivor of a similar incident in 2005 while running on a treadmill, I want to mention that this illustrates the value of exercising in public. If I was running alone in the woods, I would have been found a corpse, but the gym staff helped save my ass and I'm alive today because of them. We all may have hidden genetic heart conditions that can strike out of the blue, so protect yourself by always exercising in public.

[Lanzig]

@Torgo1969 why stop there? You should sleep in public as well because you can have a heart attack while you sleep. You should only have sex in the hospital parking lot because sex can bring on a heart attack (unless you are banging a nurse or someone who knows CPR) You can die at anytime so you should just enjoy your life.

[crv26]

@Lanzig you are a prick

[CourtyardPigeon]

yeah...it was a heart condition...his heart stopped...wasn't a heart attack actually...it just stopped

[zonkedforlife2]

I kid you not, this actually made me cry

[candyisbroke]

that was so eerie to watch live

[cutie4u61288]

they reported after this that he suffered a seizure that wasn't correct it was a heart thing he almost died it was a lot more serious then a seizure. Maybe they didn't know at this time and jumped the gun or didn't want to say it was so serious.

[NHLHockeyfreak]

at 0:30 you could see him slumped over

[napajedlacek]

so good ,Jiri si doing well now ,alive ....he said he woke in perfect condition in the hospital .

[tmoore4075]

I think I commented in here a while ago but this still scares the crap out of me. I remember watching this live what, the Monday before Thanksgiving? Watching them do CPR on him is freaky. So glad he survived.

[stewardo]

2:01 .... terrifying

[sooners164318]

i hate the wings with a passion, but thats horrible

[TheDanam]

Bud, dont be jealous at the most successful team in the past 20 years.

[tsmith1414]

Shut the fuck up, he wasn't making fun of the team, he was just saying he doesn't like them and that the situation was horrible. Don't try to make an arguement that clearly wasn't needed.

[YouDummy]

@tsmith1414 And you are clearly trying to keep the peace.

[TheDanam]

I was just proclaiming a statement about the Detroit Red Wings to sooners164318, I don't understand how you have any part to even criticize what I'm saying. I defended my favourite hockey team because he expressed he strongly disliked them; I just gave him a legitamite reason why a person shouldn't hate them. You have no place in this whatsoever, so I suggest you shut the lip.

[chrisnimer]

totally agree thedanam doesnt need to starrt stuff

[doyleismylastname]

how could you hate the best team in the NHL?

im guessing you a maple leaf or a penguin fan

[11CUPS13]

@sooners164318 I hate wing haters.

[treflip5]

@sooners164318 Stfu, your probably a colorado fan.

[GSPshitsonalves]

@sooners164318 bc your jealous your team isnt the best american team in the history of the nhl

[MrDlipp23]

@sooners164318 Why because their good?



[avalanchesuperstar]

@MrDlipp23 No because they're a bunch of dick shit nibleos

[wingnut000003]

I was at that game. The Joe was absolutely silent.

[mustgetout]

watching them give cpr is all kinds of scary

[21DieselBoy21]

I know I personally couldn't watch that.

[OwlsVols]

i watched this live.... talk about scary.... i still feel bad for jiri, but he has done a good job and taking what life gives him and still stays involved with the Red Wings organization even though he can never play hockey again.

[runedudez]

I was home alone watching this i was oly 10, i got terrified and called my brother to tell him i then got tickets to the make up game which the preds one :( GO WINGS

[goalie1131]

i watched this live, one of the scariest things ive wittnesed sports or not

[irvpoker2007]

love how preds trainers come to give helping hand.like the women said in rocky .''they're sportmen,not soldiers''

[mrhockey2009]

i met jiri fischer today at a hockey award ceromony for little ceasers AAA hockey as a guest speaker. very nice guy

[irvpoker2007]

shouda asked him to come back. him and ericcson would be bad ass as a defensive pair.

[crawford371]

that was about as scary as Lawrence Tayloe breaking Joe Theismann's leg on Monday Night Football back in 1985

[YouDummy]

They don't even compare. Theismann's was brutal to watch, but you knew the man would live. When you see someone receiving CPR, altogether different story.

[TRIXSTER03]

A broken leg doesn't compare to a person in need of CPR.

[crawford371]

watching a leg snap like a twig on live television is nasty but him collapsing is worse

[njdevils17]

no way. people don't die from broken legs.

[YouDummy]

Look up King Tut.

[OrgasmicOprah]

@njdevils17

Howie Morenz died from complications from a broken leg. Though it was the 1930s.

[TRIXSTER03]

He didn't have a seizure he had a pulseless arrest.

[MSU012]

i was watching on tv it was the scariest thing ever

[rajanrocks67]

those idiots they didnt blow the whistle 40 seconds after he collapsed

[YouDummy]

Those "idiots" aren't watching the 20+ players on the bench, but the 12 on the ice.

[CoboHall14]

dizman I looked at :15 and saw something, but it took until :55 for the whistle to blow......do you think they would have waited that long to stop play ?? I remember when this happened but never knew the timeline..........

[YouDummy]

I still have the raw video. What you see is a towel being thrown, not Jiri.

[dizman19]

at :15 you can see sombody fall down on the bech

[AEMoreira81]

To dizman19: That is an absolutely frightening thing I had not noticed before; the question is: When did Mike Babcock realize the gravity of this...or were the team physicians already attending to him before the whistle?

[YouDummy]

As I already mentioned, what you see is NOT Jiri falling, it is a towel being thrown.

[REDWINGSCHICK]

@AEMoreira81 i read in the paper the day after this happened that after coming off a shift fischer sat down net to brett lebda and collapsed over on him. lebda shook him and he wasn't moving. the team on that side of the bench informed babcock and immediately they called for medic attention and thats when the ref stopped play.

[Michlimania]

That was so scary live.

[callaghan1996]

man i was there it was scary as hell

[gunnerdog1211]

its great to see the decency people have, to just stop what theyre doing and focus on the more important thing at hand

[latinahoney123]

who the heck is #23 on our team out there? i cant remember

[hisnastiness]

Mathieu Schneider

[saintoffeon]

That would've freaked me right out seeing this life, when out of nowhere someone starts pumping full-force on a dude's chest.

[YouDummy]

I happened to be on the phone with my wife when this was happening. I told her I had to get off the phone, hung up on her, and was crying even before I knew who it was.

[saintoffeon]

Er..."live." Don't you just love when you could swear up and down you wrote something and you find the next day it's completely different?

[latinahoney123]

yeahh I'm sure it freaked everyone out but they had to, they made some quick thinking decisions and actions everyone worked together and saved his life. His heart stopped for a little bit and had no pulse if this had happened anywhere else and they didnt all act as quick as they did, he wouldnt have had a chance. thank god they were there.

[AnaheimDucks39]

... he didnt die retard

[stewardo]

what a tragedy... so unfair

[PENS68]

as a fan of hockey I hate seeing these kinds of things happen to any player

[TMeyer88]

he was such a great player with a great potential to be a pavel datsyk. he said he may come back someday, but i'm so glad he didn't die. it's kinda like the bryan berard accident, he had a great potential and the injury ruined his career

[iowahawk127]

Remember watching this game with my family. It was very scary. Always loved watching Jiri play.

[projapoti]

It wasn't a heart attack--he had cardiac arrest because of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy.

[CMUfan1994]

If any of u are wondering, HE HAD A HEART ATTACK!

[ilovepanthers19]

wot happened did he die

[YouDummy]

No, he didn't die, but he can no longer play hockey.

[biffnacid]

yea he doesnt play hockey any more but he is alive and thats something positive and i think he still has a job in the redwing organization

[norjak71]

yeh hes coaching i think.

[YouDummy]

He's actually scouting.

[dazednconfused75]

Yea, I thought that really showed top shelf class by the Wing's organization.

[MSU012]

and by the predators

[beatersanchez]

Alexei Cherapenov R.I.P.

[Wings4Life44]

sad day for the d

[slapshot68]

nobody wud expect something bad like this to happen during a pro sporting event. one moment ur watching the action, the next moment disaster strikes

[fowter1]

very scary

[idontwantaflippinnam]

Jiri, Malurchuck and Zednik; bless your hearts.

R.I.P. Cherepanov, Sawchuk.

If anyone can think of a name to add to either of these, let's get a train going in memory of the fortunate and the deceased.

[Danielu28]

R.I.P. Luc Bourdon

[tjd92295]

RIP Mickey Renauld

[Blackhawks4Life88]

Ace Bailey. Add him.

[Nazzylund]

Luc Bourdon in the R.I.P

[gelowitzm]

Zholtok.

[NYRangersFan94]

RIP cherepanov. such a shame to see anybody that young to pass away, not to mention all the talent and potential he had.

and thank god fischer is alive.

it's always scary to see any life threatening situations like this ever happen.

[IknowDannyToo]

oh my god!

0:52-0:55 you can hear them yelling for the medics. that freaked the shit out of me.

[rbk93s24]

he didnt die he had a seizure. hes stil alive

[YouDummy]

He was speaking of Alexei Cherepanov, not Jiri.

[danieldaniel10]

he didt have a seizure but hes good and alive

[pimpmyllama1]

yes he did have a seizure

[gelowitzm]

no, he didn't.

[joojiejo]

no, cardiac arrest. Very different. o.O

[okpapereat]

God why why why... i want to see cherepanov in NHL i bet that if they actually have a good working defibulator they probably had saved his life

[va0357]

Yup they would, they would actually keep him alive for a solid time to in order to get him alive to the hospital where they would see what the problem is and fix it. I mean Fischer's case was much worse and a defibrillator saved him, if they had a defibrillator in that arena, Cherepanov would be alive and well by now. Such a sad story, he was only 19 and to hear that negligence was the cause of his death brings tears. RIP Alexei. Hope you're in a happy place.

[bendutta2008]

holy shit, I remember this.

[cutie4u61288]

im glad hes doing better, he played a charity game not too long ago but he'll never be back to play again, it would be too much of a risk and i dont want anything to happen to him! I miss him on the team though :(

[biffnacid]

its good he was okay after this but sad he isnt able to play any more

[bits24]

HES ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[flippinfl00b]

Jiri Fischer is still alive he had a cardiac arrest but hes alive tho he wont be returning to the NHL jeez people get ur facts straight he did not die

[BUNKERBUSTER987]

Dude he was one hell of a player. we'll miss you

[dpyro2007]

fischer is missed alot by detroit, he had a very bright future :(

[Michlimania]

Big Fish...6'5" and 240lbs. He'd be prime now. Just imagine.

[ihatefatherjudge]

damn seein them doin cpr... jeese  i watched this game, it was pretty scary

[RedWings4Life87]

even tho i kno hes ok, it's still scary watching this today.

Fischer you will be missed, and thank god that ur alive. The doctors deserve alot of credit as well.

[wingnut000003]

I was at this game, one of the scariest things i've ever seen

[SabresFan6130]

wow do these announcers suck. "is it a player?"

"no its definitely not a player. nope"

[dtones520]

They couldnt see on the bench who it was, as he was immediately laid down next to the bench. Ken Daniels and Mickey Redmond are some of the best local announcers in the league.

[SabresFan6130]

your telling me!

[CamaroSS2236]

maybe when you are in a state of shock feeling, u dont comprehend most things correctly.

[sttrogdor93]

i remember when this happed, i freaked out totally!

btw, i didnt know Franzen wore the number 39

[Cromulus420]

Yep he wore it til Hasek came back and then switched to the 93.

[btb40]

when it was all said and done he would have been considered as one of the best players to put on a red wing sweater. it's ashame he didn't get the chance to show that to the world. there is no doubt in my mind we would have at least 1 if not 2 more stanley cups if he still played

[bikygary]

shut up 2 more stanely cups

[crawford371]

I remember that game they ended the game right there and had to finish it a couple of months later

[StaryNight17]

We love you Jiri!

[singthesorrow1069]

i love Jiri!

[flynfun]

I had Jiri, his wife and young son on my flight from Europe earlier this month. They are a happy,lovely,kind family.

[lrmlfl]

your jokin about the comment about the goal right ? .. like wow

jiri such a great guy.. my brother played hockey with him in Hull,

[radim4t0rCZ]

Jirkovi moc preju aby este mohl hrat na profesionalni urovni.

[randomhero7]

shut the fuck up

[hockeypunk136]

ya dude thats wrong. I may be a die hard avs fan but what u just said was wrong.

[Hiei2k7]

Fuck you and everyone whos related to you.

[crawford371]

slapshot68 you are a mindless idiot!

[11CUPS13]

@slapshot68 Fuck you, and your goal.

[mrceleb2006]

He's retired now.

[IrishXamerican]

Fischer hasn't retired. His contract has been kept by Detroit, and its possib;e for him to play again, although very unlikely. He played a charity hockey game a week or two ago and it was his first time on the ice since this moment.

[mrceleb2006]

I saw this footage as part of a Heart and Stroke Canadian TV spot today. I see referee Don Van Massenhoven watching the action of trying to revive Jiri Fischer while Ken Daniels and Mickey Redmond describe the action.

[mrceleb2006]

I saw this footage as part of a Heart and Stroke Canadian TV spot today. I see referee Don Van Massenhoven watching the action of trying to revive Jiri Fischer while Ken Daniels and Mickey Redmond describe trhe action.

[REDWINGSCHICK]

they still kind of are trying to figure it out.

[xomandaa26xo]

omg what happened to him?

[BCheck21]

he had somne heart problem

[SliceOfSweetness]

i'm pretty sure it was a seizure....

[omgangiepants]

He went into cardiac arrest.

[clumsychad]

he was dead for almost 2 minutes

[Lo0405Lo]

He was unconscious for 6 minutes.

[jeffyp06]

i dont give a shit what you guys say jiri fisher was a great player and if you are saying otherwise its probably because his red wings stomped your ass already. if not when he played they definatly will this season.

[airmaq79]

actually the wings have not stomped my teams ass this year; my team has won 4 outta 5 against them

[sabrefanatic23]

frompdiggity, that is impossible because 13jon13 put his comment in before JBthree24 put his in. So JeremyXshug was right about that. If i ever met 13jon13 i'd kick his ass

[graffy911]

You are wrong.  JBthree24's comment was 2 weeks BEFORE 13jon13 made his. 13jon13's comment was about the NHL community coming together...frompdiggity was right.

[13jon13]

if u wanna fight look me up hombre. i'll kick ur ass hockey style.

[bapjap]

hell ya 13jon13 stand up for ure player!...dude the NHL has been scary lately...

[13jon13]

ur a dumbass

[JeremysXshug]

13jon13 can suck it. Jiri fisher was an amazing player.

[frompdiggity]

Jeremysxshug,  did it ever cross your mind that 13jon13 was saying "that was beautiful" to JBthree24's comment regarding how the NHL community comes together during times like this? Don't be so quick to judge.

[13jon13]

thank you, im glad someone has common sense here.

[frompdiggity]

The problem with common sense online is that it's not so common.

Especially online.