Army hockey coach Brian Riley credited a team trainer with saving the life of forward Eric Huss, who suffered a severe neck injury caused by a skate during a game at Sacred Heart University.
Huss, a junior from Dallas, Texas, caught an inadvertent skate to the neck in the second period of Army’s 5–0 loss to the Pioneers in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on Jan. 5. Trainer Rachel Leahy rushed into action and took measures to control the bleeding, team officials said.
Huss recovered and returned to the West Point campus on Jan. 6 after undergoing surgery at a hospital.
“A terrible tragedy was avoided tonight because of the quick action of our trainer and the medical staff that were in the arena tonight,” Riley wrote on Twitter on Jan. 5. “Grateful that our player will be ok because of them.”…