Rising Canadian junior hockey participant Eli Palfreyman reportedly died within the locker room throughout a preseason sport in Ontario on Tuesday night time.
The 20-year-old Cambridge, Ont. native collapsed through the first intermission of the Ayr Centennials’ preseason event sport on the North Dumfries Group Advanced, based on the Toronto Solar. Emergency officers had been unable to revive the star ahead.
Medical officers haven't disclosed Palfreyman’s explanation for dying and the Centennial’s group mentioned it is not going to speculate “out of respect for the household’s proper to privateness.”
“We're asking to your prayers and help for Eli’s household and every of our gamers,” Centennials’ Vice President Brian Shantz mentioned in an announcement. “Our Centennials group and the neighborhood of Ayr are in mourning. Eli had the very best care from our medical workers and fast response from the ambulatory workers.”
The Ayr Centennials, one in all 25 groups within the Better Ontario Junior Hockey League, named Palfreyman its captain for its upcoming season days earlier than the tragedy. He was coming into his second season with the group.
“It’s an honor to put on the C,” Palfreyman mentioned after being named captain on Friday. “Me coming again this yr — my last yr — because the captain, phrases don’t clarify how honored I'm to be on this place.”
Palfreyman was a Twelfth-round draft choose of the Peterborough Petes within the Ontario Hockey League Draft in 2018.
“Our deepest sympathies exit to Eli’s household and all of his teammates and workers with Ayr,” Peterborough Petes common supervisor Michael Oke mentioned in an announcement.
The GOJHL postponed its video games initially scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday following Palfreyman’s dying.
North Dumfries Township Mayor Sue Foxton ordered flags on the enviornment to be flown at half-mast whereas groups throughout the junior hockey panorama paid tribute to the younger participant.
“Gone from our sight however by no means our hearts,” mentioned the Atlanta Madhatters, Palfreyman’s former crew. “With tears and profound disappointment, we provide our deepest condolences to his household and those who had been blessed to be his teammates.”
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