Carol referred to the incident as a fluke, saying that it could have happened to anyone. Death 20 Feb 2002 (aged 86) New Zealand. That dream carried him through junior hockey in his hometown of Winnipeg and three years at the University of Denver, where he was an All-American and led the Pioneers to the 1961 NCAA championship, but the dream stalled after two years of minor league hockey in the Montreal Canadiens' organization. She, too, believes something else was wrong with Masterton that night, something that explains why the routine bodycheck left him unconscious even before he hit the ice. [14] His wife Carol later recalled that it was a "dream come true" for her husband: "He always wanted a shot at the NHL, and expansion was a wonderful thing for him and guys like him. He had been checked hard into the glass -- less yielding in those days -- two weeks earlier in a game against the Boston Bruins. Newspapers Limited, 8 Spadina Avenue, 10th Floor, Toronto, ON M5V 0S8. In a quiet moment, Masterton made a rare admission to Maniago: He was struggling with the effects of a head check into the glass during a recent game. Since Masterton was off balance at the time he got checked (cleanly; there was no penalty called), his brain twisted inside of his skull before his head struck the ice. "It sounded like a baseball bat hitting a ball," teammate Andr Boudrias recalled. Masterton wasnt big. Such is the legacy of the only man who died because of injuries caused in an NHL game. Even as Walter Bush, one of the North Star owners, saw him lying motionless on the ice, he did not think Masterton had sustained a concussion. Murray Williamson, who coached both amateur teams Masterton played for, remembered a night in Rochester, Minnesota, when Masterton backed into a radiator in the dressing room and singed his rear end. The general public doesnt understand the adrenaline, the passion, the dedication the players have to get out there and perform.. I looked at him and said, What are you going to do? because he was just starting a young family, said Bob. A team of doctors at the hospital treated Masterton with steroids and diuretics, but the swelling in his brain was so swift and severe that they decided against operating. They didn't. What about Howie morenz? The season started with promise: Masterton scored the first goal in North Stars history. RIP Bill Masterton. He bore the bruises of that hit and others in subsequent games on his left arm, both thighs and, unwittingly, his brain. Happened to Jiri Fisher on the Wings bench too. That same year a trophy called the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy was established by the Professional Hockey Writers' Association, in his memory. The Hennepin County medical examiner found evidence of a previous injury on the left side of Masterton's skull on the temporal region of the brain. And in Masterton's case, it probably cost him his life. When Masterton's head struck the ice at Met Center, there was no skull fracture, but his brain swelled very quickly, evidenced by his dilated pupils and elevated blood pressure -- which pointed to a previous head injury. Like many Canadian boys growing up in the 50s, Masterton listened to Saturday night radio broadcasts of Hockey Night in Canada and dreamed of Foster Hewitt making the call: Masterton shoots, he scores!. Masterton was soft-spoken and modest, a quiet guy with a good sense of humor. Yet that might not actually be the case. I think he had a (pre-existing) cerebral brain hemorrhage.. Fear, plain and simple, said Mike Walton, a Maple Leafs rookie when Masterton died. "He didn't move after that. They thought it took away from the fan experience, masking the identity of players. It goes on today, theres no question about it. Seven hours later, when the Hennepin County medical examiner performed an autopsy, they discovered the true cause of Masterton's death. But my brother was the worker and he had the ethic that you need to make the NHL.. TikTok video from That Stars Fan (@hockey_unpaused): "Bill Masterton is the only player in NHL history to die as a direct result of an injury suffered on the ice. Corry confirmed the opinion of Dr. Charles Tator, a Toronto neurosurgeon quoted in the Toronto Star article, who also said Masterton showed signs of "second-impact syndrome." They didn't. In 1968, Boudrias was the only North Star who wore a helmet. "We lived with the accident for many years but did not talk about it.". John Rosengren is the author of Blades of Glory: The True Story of a Young Team Bred to Win . That dream carried him through junior hockey in his hometown of Winnipeg and three years at the University of Denver, where he was an All-American and led the Pioneers to the 1961 NCAA championship, but the dream stalled after two years of minor league hockey in the Montreal Canadiens' organization. For the 1979-80 season, the league finally made helmets mandatory for new players -- allowing those who signed professional contracts prior to June 1, 1979, the option not to wear them -- but it would be 18 years before every NHL player complied. Realizing he was already gone, Masterton's parents, who had flown in from Winnipeg after they heard of the incident, and his wife, Carol, made the decision to remove Masterton from life support. It sounded like a baseball bat hitting a ball, teammate Andr Boudrias recalled. Is his number retired by the Stars? Corry does not think the amount of swelling would have been caused from the singular impact at Met Center. [27], Masterton was inducted into the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame in 1985,[28] and named to the NCAA's 50th anniversary team in 1997. Nor did he see evidence of CTE, the progressive degenerative disease found posthumously in the brains of nearly 87 of 91 NFL players who suffered multiple blows to the head. For my iTunes documentary, "The California Golden Seals Story" - I interviewed three witnesses to the tragic sequence of events that led to the death of Minn. They carried Masterton off on a stretcher, and an ambulance rushed him to Fairview Southdale hospital, seven miles away. Masterton had worn a helmet when he played college hockey in Denver because NCAA regulations required players to wear them, but he did not wear one as a professional. that is out of proportion to the blow that he got. "It is very rare to see that level of swelling in the brain from a single injury," he said. The Hennepin County medical examiner found evidence of a previous injury on the left side of Mastertons skull on the temporal region of the brain. "You know the diagnosis of a concussion back in those days?" William Masterton (August 13, 1938 - January 15, 1968) was a Canadian American professional ice hockey centre who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Minnesota North Stars in 1967-68. Playoffs. Since Masterton was off balance at the time he got checked (cleanly; there was no penalty called), his brain twisted inside of his skull before his head struck the ice. "I wouldn't do it.". In several games prior to the tragedy, Blair had also noticed something strange. 19, a tradition the franchise continued to honor when it moved and became the Dallas Stars. Bill Masterton, the only player to die from injuries suffered during an NHL game, might not have died in vain. He had been checked hard into the glass -- less yielding in those days -- two weeks earlier in a game against the Boston Bruins. Yet players such as Masterton learned to play hurt. Even as Walter Bush, one of the North Star owners, saw him lying motionless on the ice, he did not think Masterton had sustained a concussion. The team also retired his No. the Story Of Hockey History Bill Masterton a unforchanate hit that lead to his death You stopped elbowing guys in the head, Matt?". "I knew he was done.". "When he had headaches early on, we wouldn't have had him on the ice," he said. It got deathly quiet.". But even if they had, he might still have been in the lineup against Oakland. "I am convinced he had some type of concussion beforehand," said Dr. Jesse Corry, a specialist in neurocritical care at the John Nasseff Neuroscience Specialty Clinic in St. Paul who studied the autopsy report. The specter of Masterton's death hung over the NHL All-Star Game, which was played in Toronto the next day, Jan. 16, 1968. https://www.hockey-reference.com/awards/masterton.html 11 [deleted] 5 yr. ago This reminded me of Rich Beverly or Peverly for the Stars. Realizing he was already gone, Mastertons parents, who had flown in from Winnipeg after they heard of the incident, and his wife, Carol, made the decision to remove Masterton from life support. [24] The University of Denver Pioneers hockey team named its most valuable player award after him,[25] and his Winnipeg high school, Miles Macdonell Collegiate, presents a scholarship in his name. The Toronto Star and thestar.com, each property of Toronto Star He didn't see the other defender, who caught him with a clean check that knocked him backward. What makes hockey players hide their injuries and re-enter games knowing the next hit could spell ruin? They thought it took away from the fan experience, masking the identity of players. . Typical of the attitude of the day, North Stars coach Wren Blair frowned on the practice. [11] The new team's coach and general manager, Wren Blair, had scouted Masterton while he played with the US Nationals and purchased his NHL playing rights from the Canadiens. He never laid down.. Didn't he break his leg then die from complications as a result of it. The specter of Mastertons death hung over the NHL All-Star Game, which was played in Toronto the next day, Jan. 16, 1968. What happened in the days leading up to that fatal moment in Minneapolis, when Masterton played his 38th and final NHL game, has been largely a mystery. Toronto neurosurgeon and concussion expert Charles Tator reviewed Masterton's autopsy and opined that Masterton had suffered second-impact syndrome, which occurs when a person suffers a second concussion on top of an earlier, untreated concussion. They and many others claim the league could be doing more to protect its players from returning to action too soon. [11] He finished as the runner up to Doug Robinson for the Dudley "Red" Garrett Memorial Award as the AHL's top rookie. A helmet obviously would not have hurt Masterton, but it might not have been enough to spare his life, given the nature of his injury and the fact he had not healed from a recent concussion. Ken Lindgren, a fan watching the play about 10 rows up in the stands just above the blue line, can still visualize the impact. But that has not happened fast enough for a group of more than 120 ex-NHL players, including Bernie Nicholls, Mike Peluso and Steve Payne, who are suing the league in a class-action suit for putting their neurological health at risk despite knowing the violent play involved. When Minnesota executives, who had acquired his rights, invited him to a tryout, Masterton relished the second chance. Latest News Despite several efforts to mandate their use, it was 11 years before the NHL made them compulsory for all new players beginning in the 197980 season. [12], Faced with little opportunity to make the Montreal roster,[3] Masterton left the professional game to complete his master's degree at the University of Denver. presentation-ready copies of Toronto Star content for distribution Yeah was going to say maybe the only death by a player, not in general. He cherished his son, Scott, 3, and daughter, Sally, 1. That was the NHL's code. Yet players such as Masterton learned to play hurt. Masterton, who was not wearing a helmet, smacked the back of his head on the ice. To order He was having some headaches. He played for Team USA from 1966 to 1967, and the Minnesota North Stars from 1967 to 1968. [15], Several awards were named in Masterton's memory. [9] The Pioneers finished the season with a 30-1-1 record and were hailed as "the greatest hockey team to ever represent an American college or university. In 1968, Bill Masterton became the only NHL player to date to die as the result of injuries suffered during a game. You hold out four fingers. So has NHL protocol, initiated in 2011, which has spotters to flag potentially concussed players and bans those from returning to games in which they were injured. At 1:55 a.m. on Jan. 15, 1968 almost 30 hours after he struck his head on the ice Bill Masterton died at the age of 29. Masterton was not a marquee player, but he was a skilled playmaker who was willing to work in the corners and be a team player. Thirty hours later, he was dead in hospital. "Helmets are great to absorb blunt impact, but when the brain is spinning, helmets don't help the spinning contents slow down," Corry said. The Hennepin County medical examiner found evidence of a previous injury on the left side of Masterton's skull on the temporal region of the brain. He sees both nobility and short-sightedness in the demands placed on hockeys most devoted players. Usually Masterton is described as the first death caused directly by an on-ice incident to differentiate from Morenz dying of complications. He had kept fit by playing on a barnstorming amateur team, the St. Paul Steers, and with the U.S. national team. permissions/licensing, please go to: www.TorontoStarReprints.com. After Masterton's death, the North Stars set up a scholarship fund in his name. Three years later, only six Minnesota players wore them, the most of any of the NHL's teams. ", North Stars coach Wren Blair describes Masterton's qualities as a player. Nor did he see evidence of CTE, the progressive degenerative disease found posthumously in the brains of nearly 87 of 91 NFL players who suffered multiple blows to the head. At 1:55 a.m. on Jan. 15, 1968 -- almost 30 hours after he struck his head on the ice -- Bill Masterton died at the age of 29. They and many others claim the league could be doing more to protect its players from returning to action too soon. "You know the diagnosis of a concussion back in those days?" For the 1979-80 season, the league finally made helmets mandatory for new players -- allowing those who signed professional contracts prior to June 1, 1979, the option not to wear them -- but it would be 18 years before every NHL player complied. "We watched his head bounce," Lindgren said. He bore the bruises of that hit and others in subsequent games -- on his left arm, both thighs and, unwittingly, his brain. Well I DIEEEED, "Oh really? Ive never thought that it had anything to do with that hit. The specter of Masterton's death hung over the NHL All-Star Game, which was played in Toronto the next day, Jan. 16, 1968. Back at the 1968 All-Star Game, discussion among beat writers went beyond the helmet debate to come up with a way to commemorate the league's first casualty. ", Masterton was an unfortunate victim of the ignorance of his time. The underlying cause of his death almost 50 years ago elevates awareness about the risks of undiagnosed concussions -- and the NHL's responsibility to address them. We didn't think it was that serious.". He's also convinced a helmet would have saved Masterton's life. "We watched his head bounce," Lindgren said. [9] He settled in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he took a job in contracts administration. "We lived with the accident for many years but did not talk about it.". We were not allowed to wear helmets, said J.P. Parise. A college standout with the Denver Pioneers, Masterton was a member of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) championship teams in 1960 and 1961, was twice an NCAA All-Star and was the most valuable player of the 1961 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament. Toronto Star articles, please go to: www.TorontoStarReprints.com, Conversations are opinions of our readers and are subject to the. And hopefully the lasthard to believe with how fast, heavy hitting, and dangerous this game is, it hasn't happened since. It's a fine tribute to a respected player who exhibited those virtues himself, but it's regrettable that it ever came to be. . Masterton was soft-spoken and modest, a quiet guy with a good sense of humor. asked Williamson, who has a photo hanging in his office of Masterton on the stretcher. "I am convinced he had some type of concussion beforehand," said Dr. Jesse Corry, a specialist in neurocritical care at the John Nasseff Neuroscience Specialty Clinic in St. Paul who studied the autopsy report. But it was frowned on, really.. The NHL's expansion from six to 12 teams in 1967-68 rekindled his mothballed dream. Only a handful of NHL players wore them at the time, including Masterton's teammate, Boudrias. The Professional Hockey Writers Association proposed and the league immediately approved the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy to be awarded annually to the player who best exemplifies the virtues of perseverance, courage and sportsmanship that Masterton displayed. I am convinced he had some type of concussion beforehand, said Dr. Jesse Corry, a specialist in neurocritical care at the John Nasseff Neuroscience Specialty Clinic in St. Paul who studied the autopsy report. NHL -- Real reasons for the death of Bill Masterton highlight concussion issue Skip to main content Skip to navigation Presented By > ESPN Search You have reached ESPN's Australian edition. States the autopsy report: "There was a blow to the left temple in a game some days prior to the fatal injury and the deceased is said to have complained of headaches in the left temporal region.". "[Masterton] probably had some earlier swelling going on, so if he got a second injury, it would be catastrophic.". In 1968, Boudrias was the only North Star who wore a helmet. [1] Masterton led the WCHA in scoring in 195960 with 44 points in conference play,[6] and led Denver to the 1960 NCAA national championship. When Minnesota executives, who had acquired his rights, invited him to a tryout, Masterton relished the second chance. The night before the Oakland game, Mastertons family gathered at the house of their neighbor, North Star goaltender Cesare Maniago, to celebrate Maniagos 29th birthday. "We didn't really know concussions in those days," said Bush, now 86. [16] Masterton was the first player to sign with Minnesota,[11] agreeing to a two-year contract. "I was asked to take it off," Boudrias said. Boudrias is convinced his insistence on wearing a helmet factored into Blair's decision. Boudrias helped the team's trainer onto the ice to tend to Masterton. Back at the 1968 All-Star Game, discussion among beat writers went beyond the helmet debate to come up with a way to commemorate the leagues first casualty. "We lived with the accident for many years but did not talk about it.". I don't think his heart completely stopped. But 37 games later, in the days leading up to the hit that would kill him, there were signs all was not right. For the 1979-80 season, the league finally made helmets mandatory for new players allowing those who signed professional contracts prior to June 1, 1979, the option not to wear them but it would be 18 years before every NHL player complied. With a blown knee and broken bones, Scott stepped away from his sport. He was traded the following season to Chicago. And it changed hockey forever. If I had a slim chance to play, Im going to play.. NHL trade grades: Kane deal to Rangers earns high marks for one side, NHL trade tracker: Latest deals, rumors and grades, Rangers clear hurdles, get Kane from Blackhawks, Oilers bulk up defense, secure Predators' Ekholm, Leafs win Schenn sweepstakes, trade for veteran, Leafs deal Sandin to Capitals for Gustafsson, pick, Wild add depth, acquire Johansson from Capitals, NHL suspends Rangers' Miller for spitting incident, Oilers trade ex-No. We didnt think it was that serious.. "Helmets are great to absorb blunt impact, but when the brain is spinning, helmets don't help the spinning contents slow down," Corry said. Back at the 1968 All-Star Game, discussion among beat writers went beyond the helmet debate to come up with a way to commemorate the league's first casualty. At 1:55 a.m. on Jan. 15, 1968 almost 30 hours after he struck his head on the ice Bill Masterton died at the age of 29. Philadelphia forward Ian Laperriere is one of three final nominees for this years Masterton Trophy despite not playing a single game in 2010-11 as he deals with post-concussion syndrome. "It's kind of good to hear that because it takes away some of the 'What if?'" Ken Lindgren, a fan watching the play about 10 rows up in the stands just above the blue line, can still visualize the impact. "He played that game standing up," Williamson said. Minnesota goalie Cesare Maniagos wife, Mavis, had a clear view of Mastertons fall from her seat in the stands. While knowledge of concussions has increased dramatically since Masterton died, the warrior-like mindset of professional hockey players is everlasting, he said. They and many others claim the league could be doing more to protect its players from returning to action too soon. Only a handful of NHL players wore them at the time, including Mastertons teammate, Boudrias. "I knew he was done.". Still, he returned to play following lost teeth, hundreds of stitches and even the discovery of a spot on his brain visible on a CAT scan. The underlying cause of his death almost 50 years ago elevates awareness about the risks of undiagnosed concussions -- and the NHL's responsibility to address them. That's what men did. People said I was crazy, but Im like, They brought me here to show the young guys the right way, said the 37-year-old Laperriere, who had signed with Philly before the 2009-10 season. You have come to the ESPN Africa edition, for other ESPN editions, click above. [16] In that game, a 22 tie, Masterton scored the first goal in Minnesota franchise history. Corry believes Masterton's death could have been prevented -- and would be today. He had kept fit by playing on a barnstorming amateur team, the St. Paul Steers, and with the U.S. national team. 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