ggz Zholtok
 

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_pag ... 02,00.html

-that just flat out sucks.... annoy: cry:

LATVIAN and NHL hockey star Sergei Zholtok died during a Belarus championship game yesterday between Dynamo Minsk and Latvia's Riga 2000.

The 31-year-old collapsed with five minutes remaining of play and was pronounced dead in an ambulance on his way to hospital.

Reports said Zholtok died of a heart attack.

Zholtok appeared in 588 NHL games from 1992-2004 with Boston, Ottawa, Montreal, Edmonton, Minnesota and Nashville. He joined the Nashville Predators in March in a trade from Minnesota.

Zholtok played 11 games for Nashville last season but was appearing in the Belarus championship because of the NHL lockout.

I heard this on the radio as soon as I woke up this morning. Not exactly a great wake up call.

He was he same age as me. Scary.


RIP Sergei

wow... rip...

RIP...is there any notion to what the cause was?

Some sort of cardiac episode. I'm guessing it was undiagnosed.

Scary when they dont know why the heart stopped.

Thats sad.

I think the problem with Athletes such as himself are the ones with low HDL Cholesterol levels (Low HDL cholesterol levels [less than 40 mg/dL] increase the risk for heart disease.) Thats my problem, i have low HDL that hovers in the lower 30's. People who are in shape and have low HDL are susceptible to dropping dead while exerting themselves.

Similar to that soccer player dropping dead i suppose. annoy:

I read this yesterday on TSN.

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story.asp?ID ... ubName=nhl

I was kind of glancing by and had to look again. Zholtok is a name you hear quite a bit in the NHL so when someone like that dies it comes as a bit of a suprise.

RIP

So young, and so sad..

RIP

..and sporting seems to be healthy eek:

Rip

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man that sucks.

Such a shame, he was good to.