As he knelt next to the goal clutching his slit throat, while blood pulsed out like a fountain and pooled around him, all Clint Malarchuk could ... His throat cut by a stray skate, he survived ...

(Photo by Jamie Sabau/NHLI via Getty Images) Jamie Sabau When most hockey fans think of former NHL goalie Clint Malarchuk, there’s that indelible (and unsettling) image of him getting his throat ...

Editor's note: The following excerpt from "A Matter of Inches: How I Survived in the Crease and Beyond" by Clint Malarchuk with ... He pushed it against my throat, holding me so tight I could ...

In the middle of a televised hockey game in 1989, the skate of an opposing player connected with Buffalo Sabres goaltender Clint Malarchuk's throat — and severed his jugular vein. "I think ...

It's a memory that Clint ... cut, and emergency surgery that night at Buffalo General Hospital probably saved his life. The Panthers expected an update on Zednik's condition later Tuesday ...

Hockey loved Clint ... Malarchuk winces and the doctor lets up, blood jumping from the wound. The frantic routine continues as they ride to Buffalo General Hospital, where nurses cut off his ...

In his 2014 bare-the-soul autobiography called “A Matter of Inches,” former Las Vegas Thunder goalie Clint Malarchuk wrote that after he had his throat slashed by an opposing player’s skate ...

When Clint Malarchuk pointed his gun to his chin and fired a bullet through the roof of his mouth, he couldn’t have imagined he would be writing about it six years later.

Most hockey fans know of Clint Malarchuk ... Constant nightmares of his throat being slit made insomnia Malarchuk’s constant companion. He started drinking and was taking pain pills for a ...

The picture in The News of goalie Clint Malarchuk, with blood spilling from an unfortunate accident, was distasteful. People are so ready to pick up their camcorders and cameras when tragedies occur.