‘They’re my heroes’: Hockey ceremony acknowledges those who saved referee’s life

Brett Eagles was officiating a crippled astatine the opening of the Maritime Hockey Summit successful August erstwhile helium collapsed.

“I retrieve waking up successful the infirmary wondering wherefore my thorax wounded truthful bad,” helium said.

He’d suffered a cardiac arrest.

But the speedy reasoning of section attendees kept him live — bringing him backmost to beingness doubly portion they waited for archetypal responders, according to Roger Shannon, proprietor of the Fredericton Riverview Ford Red Wings.

“They’re my heroes. Without them and without the speedy effect of each idiosyncratic that was there, I wouldn’t beryllium here,” Eagles said.

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On Sunday, those attendees and paramedics were recognized arsenic portion of the hockey team’s yearly archetypal responders’ crippled — giving Eagles a accidental to conscionable the radical who saved his life.

“That’s what contiguous is for maine – it’s not astir me, it’s astir the heroes,” helium said.

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