{"id":295023,"date":"2023-10-31T19:09:55","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T19:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/?p=295023"},"modified":"2023-10-31T19:09:55","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T19:09:55","slug":"ex-nhl-star-claims-matt-petgrave-absolutely-intended-to-hit-adam-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/nba\/ex-nhl-star-claims-matt-petgrave-absolutely-intended-to-hit-adam-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-NHL star claims Matt Petgrave &#8216;absolutely&#8217; intended to hit Adam Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/4\/590x\/secondary\/NHL-5042392.jpg?r=1698774098314\"><\/p>\n<p>Former NHL star Sean Avery believes Matt Petgrave deliberately made contact with Adam Johnson in the incident that killed the former Pittsburgh Penguins center on Saturday. But that there was no intention to seriously harm his opponent. Minnesota native Johnson, 29, was playing for the Nottingham Panthers in the English Ice Hockey League when Canadian Petgrave of the Sheffield Steelers hit him in the neck with his skate.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson skated off the ice with blood pouring from his neck and he was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. South Yorkshire Police has since started investigating the incident at Utilita Arena, and the English Ice Hockey Association has announced it will make neck guards mandatory in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Ex-Detroit Red Wings and New York Rangers left wing Avery appeared on FOX News to discuss the incident, with anchor Jesse Watters questioning whether Johnson\u2019s death was a \u201chomicide\u201d given the unusual height of Petgrave\u2019s skate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s a pretty dangerous word to throw around,\u201d Avery replied. \u201cI\u2019ve watched it and it\u2019s terrible, it\u2019s tough to watch. Did this kid make a movement that was very unorthodox, do I think that he was trying to make contact of some sort? Absolutely. Do I think woke up and said \u2018I\u2019m going to murder somebody today? No.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw the hit. I\u2019ve got a three-year-old that\u2019s playing hockey and it\u2019s tough. It\u2019s unorthodox, I saw the leg move and it shouldn\u2019t have been where it was, but it\u2019s an unprovable offense. How can you actually prove what the intent was? This is terrible, it\u2019s just awful and I can\u2019t even watch it. I can\u2019t watch the video back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Petgrave, 31, was described as \u201cabsolutely distraught\u201d about the incident, according to Nottingham Panthers fan Tina Taylor who was speaking outside the team\u2019s Motorpoint Arena home while paying tribute to Johnson. \u201cIt was a one-in-a-million chance occurrence and will probably never happen again. 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He explained: \u201cI want everybody to be very careful and I want you to understand one thing, the technology in our skates over the last 20 years, it\u2019s incredible. It\u2019s a titanium blade, it\u2019s a thinner blade, it\u2019s much sharper than the blades that we skated on 20 years ago, the traditional steel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we need to step back and take a look at [it] because there have been two players in the NHL, Taylor Hall, I think he got tendons cut in his wrist, and another kid in Edmonton had his tendon cut in his ankle. You have to look at the blades on these skates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/sport\/othersport\/1830047\/Adam-Johnson-death-Matt-Petgrave\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former NHL star Sean Avery believes Matt Petgrave deliberately made contact with Adam Johnson in the incident that killed the former Pittsburgh Penguins center on Saturday. But that there was no intention to seriously harm his opponent. 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