{"id":441188,"date":"2023-12-01T17:58:56","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T17:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=441188"},"modified":"2023-12-01T17:58:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T17:58:56","slug":"olympian-ice-hockey-player-sanni-hakala-paralysed-in-a-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/olympian-ice-hockey-player-sanni-hakala-paralysed-in-a-collision\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympian Ice Hockey Player Sanni Hakala Paralysed In A Collision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finnish ice hockey player Sanni Hakala has revealed that she is paralyzed from the chest down following a collision with a goalpost on Friday (November 24) during a club game.<\/p>\n<h2>Olympian Ice Hockey Player Sanni Hakala Paralysed In A Collision<\/h2>\n<p>When the collision occurred, the two-time Olympic bronze winner was leading her Swedish Women&#8217;s Hockey League club, HV71.<\/p>\n<p>Hakala had to be taken to the hospital immediately for emergency surgery, therefore the game was cancelled.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">HV71 captain Sanni Hakala crashed into the post and injured her neck. <\/p>\n<p>She has now had surgery, and is unfortunately paralysed from the chest down. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sB8oMZElsE\">pic.twitter.com\/sB8oMZElsE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Robin on the Avs \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 (@AvsRobin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AvsRobin\/status\/1730278436617286054?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is still hard to understand what has happened, that the crash into the goal post was as serious as it was, that the consequences have become so big,\u201d read a message on the 26-year-old&#8217;s social media platforms on Thursday (30 November).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot only that I am forced to stop playing hockey, something that has been a big part of my life for many years, but I may be forced to sit in a wheelchair for the rest of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The two-time Olympic medallist crashed head-first into the opponent&#8217;s goalpost and lay motionless, receiving the horrifying injury. The team&#8217;s game versus Djurg\u00e5rdens was later postponed as she was eventually stretchered off the ice by medical services.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our thoughts are with Sanni Hakala at this time.\u2764\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1ocAooasKH\">pic.twitter.com\/1ocAooasKH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TSN (@TSN_Sports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSN_Sports\/status\/1730319205885505634?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is still hard to understand what has happened. That the crash into the goal post was as serious as it was, that the consequences have become so big. Not only that I am forced to stop playing hockey, something that has been a big part of my life for many years, but that I may be forced to sit in a wheelchair for the rest of my life,\u201d Hakala posted across her social media accounts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe injury I sustained last Friday after colliding with the goal post has left me paralyzed from the chest down, with reduced function in my arms and hands. That\u2019s the reality I\u2019m trying to land in.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Olympian And Ice Hockey Star Sanni Hakala Paralysed After Goalpost Collision <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DEuf9LLuSp\">https:\/\/t.co\/DEuf9LLuSp<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mmMYePmhb0\">pic.twitter.com\/mmMYePmhb0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NDTV (@ndtv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ndtv\/status\/1730634795393167646?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Hakala has previously competed for Finland at the Winter Olympics in 2018 and 2022, when she took home two bronze medals. She just committed to staying with the squad for her seventh season after signing a contract extension earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>The hockey player, who was born on Halloween in 1997, played on boys&#8217; teams until the age of 15, at which point she signed with JYP Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4 in the Finnish women&#8217;s national league, the Naisten SM-sarja.<\/p>\n<p>She departed Finland in November 2016 to sign with the J\u00f6nk\u00f6ping-based Swedish Women&#8217;s Hockey League team HV71.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">Our thoughts are with Sanni Hakala and her family after her tragic accident last week. The hockey community is with you, Sanni! \ud83d\udc99<\/p>\n<p>Nos pens\u00e9es vont \u00e0 Sanni Hakala et \u00e0 sa famille \u00e0 la suite de son grave accident la semaine pass\u00e9e. La communaut\u00e9 du hockey te soutient, Sanni! \ud83d\udc99 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7cGQsoabHR\">pic.twitter.com\/7cGQsoabHR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Hockey Canada (@HockeyCanada) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HockeyCanada\/status\/1730364361112449441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the 2018 Winter Olympics, she scored one goal in six games to help Finland win bronze. In the 2022 competition, she scored one goal in seven games.<\/p>\n<p>At the 2016 IIHF Women&#8217;s World Championship, Hakala made her senior international debut. Since then, she has been a member of the squad each year.<\/p>\n<p>Also, she participated in Finland&#8217;s historic first-ever silver medal win in the IIHF Women&#8217;s World Championship in 2019.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Another horrible incident in an ice hockey game, this time in a Women&#39;s Swedish top league game in the SDHL with HV71 Finnish player Sanni Hakala getting seriously injured crashing into a goal post.<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts are with player, friends and family.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VtEAWKaaq2\">https:\/\/t.co\/VtEAWKaaq2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Andrew Day (@AndrewDay111) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndrewDay111\/status\/1730608814930461040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE-\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Dirk Nowitzki Talks About Changes Mark Cuban Made Post Joining Dallas \u00a0\" href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/dirk-nowitzki-talks-about-changes-mark-cuban-made-post-joining-dallas\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Dirk Nowitzki Talks About Changes Mark Cuban Made Post Joining Dallas \u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finnish ice hockey player Sanni Hakala has revealed that she is paralyzed from the chest down following a collision with a goalpost on Friday (November 24) during a club game. Olympian Ice Hockey Player Sanni Hakala Paralysed In A Collision When the collision occurred, the two-time Olympic bronze winner was leading her Swedish Women&#8217;s Hockey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":441191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[6037,4093,19579,19580],"class_list":["post-441188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nhl","tag-nhl-2023","tag-nhl-news","tag-sanni-hakala","tag-sanni-hakala-nhl"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}