{"id":3557,"date":"2022-01-08T17:00:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T17:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/CAIiELezulz93iW08_G84cxc31EqFggEKg0IACoGCAow7s8BMNBIMLXUiQY"},"modified":"2022-01-08T17:00:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T17:00:06","slug":"connecticut-high-school-hockey-player-dead-after-horrific-clash-on-the-ice-the-daily-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/?p=3557","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut High School Hockey Player Dead After Horrific Clash on the Ice &#8211; The Daily Beast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.thedailybeast.com\/image\/upload\/c_crop,d_placeholder_euli9k,h_623,w_1107,x_0,y_54\/dpr_2.0\/c_limit,w_740\/fl_lossy,q_auto\/v1641660768\/FIjYTtYXwAwcc-a_hetdhk\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"Mobiledoc\">\n<p>Police in Greenwich, Connecticut, said Friday that a junior varsity hockey was fatally injured during a game Thursday when another player collided with his neck. St. Luke\u2019s of New Canaan was playing Brunswick School in Greenwich when Teddy Balkind of St. Luke\u2019s fell to the ice. Another player was skating nearby and was unable to stop when he collided with Balkind, officials said. He was cut in the neck and rushed to a hospital where he died. The heads of both schools expressed their shock and heartbreak, as did several high-profile hockey players and the National Hockey League, which called Balkind \u201ca member of the hockey family lost too soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"ReadItAtLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.courant.com\/breaking-news\/hc-br-high-school-ice-hockey-player-dies-20220107-h6oz56zju5bbvgn5oyfjbwac7u-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>Read it at <\/span><span class=\"ReadItAtLink__name\">Hartford Courant<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Greenwich, Connecticut, said Friday that a junior varsity hockey was fatally injured during a game Thursday when another player collided with his neck. St. Luke\u2019s of New Canaan was playing Brunswick School in Greenwich when Teddy Balkind of St. Luke\u2019s fell to the ice. Another player was skating nearby and was unable to stop when he collided with Balkind, officials said. He was cut in the neck and rushed to a hospital where he died. The heads of both schools expressed their shock and heartbreak, as did several high-profile hockey players and the National Hockey League, which called&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}