Clint Malarchuk Although he did not make top spot in our list because few people this side of the Atlantic have heard of Clint Malarchuk, this is the most gruesome injury of them all. And, an early warning, on no account watch the video if you are squeamish or of a nervous disposition. Malarchuk was a goaltender playing for the National Hockey League’s Buffalo Sabers against St Louis Blues on home ice in March 1989. In the sort of play that happens a thousand times a night in a hockey game, Steve Tuttle of St Louis and Sabers defender Uwe Krupp collided in front of the goal, only this time Tuttle’s leg kicked into the air, and in a horrible fluke his skate blade sliced through the goalkeeper’s jugular vein. Malarchuk flung off his mask and collapsed to his knees in front of his goal, blood, literally, spurting out of his neck and gushing on to the ice. He asked the trainer who rushed out to help him: “Am I going to live?”. If the skate had hit one eighth of an inch higher, he would have been dead in two minutes and the sight was so grisly that three spectators suffered heart attacks. Malarchuk, who was back on the ice just three weeks after the incident happened later recalled: “I just remember the looks of horror in people’s faces and their eyes.”