A junior hockey captain has died while participating in a tournament in the town of Ayr, Ontario on Aug. 30.
Eli Palfreyman, 20, passed away while playing in a pre-season tournament game for the Ayr Centennials of the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League (GOJHL).
Palfreyman was playing with his team as part of the Ayr Farmers Mutual Global Invitational Tournament, a five-day tournament featuring six teams representing regions within Ontario, the United States, and Germany.
The tournament was initially scheduled to run from Aug. 27 to Aug. 31, but all games on the final day were later cancelled by the GOJHL, citing a “medical incident.”…