Teams will replay high school hockey game from 1999

A. Isaac Senior Editor

In 1999, two Metro Detroit area teams squared off in a heated hockey rivalry. Tied at 4-4, the game was headed for an epic ending until tragedy struck. A player took a skate to the jugular vein and almost bled out on the ice. Eerily similar to the Clint Malarchuk incident in a NHL game years ago.

Because of the severity of the injury, the game was stopped never to be played again.

Until now.

On the heels of an incredibly successful debut that featured Easton, PA and Phillipsburg, NJ replaying a high school football game that had ended in a tie back in 1993, Gatorade has announced Catholic Central and Trenton are next in line to be featured nationally in “Replay, The Series.”

These young men, now between the ages of 27-30, will once again lace up the skates and settle the score of a game that lives in infamy.

I’m assuming this will work out a lot better than the last “Replay” game because of the age of the participants. At 27, most guys are still able to skate up and down the ice without pulling a groin. Plus, and I’m not sure about the rules of the game, checking will probably be kept to a minimum.

Here’s video of the incident in 1999 from a local news station in Detroit


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