The commissioner of a junior hockey league said he would review its rules governing fights after a player had a seizure and was hospitalized following a fight Saturday.
"I'm convening a special meeting of our competition committee to see whether we're being too tolerant of fighting," Skip Prince, the commissioner of the United States Hockey League, said Sunday. Last week, concussion researchers at the Mayo Clinic called for a full ban on fighting in junior and professional hockey, partly because of the severe injuries that can be sustained in hockey fights.
Dylan Chanter, an 18-year-old defenseman with the Dubuque Fighting Saints, fell backward and hit his bare head on the ice while fighting with Corey Petrash of the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders. The crowd at Cedar Rapids Ice Arena cheered until Chanter, whose helmet had been knocked off, started convulsing. His convulsions lasted two minutes as trainers attended to him. Paramedics arrived about 15 minutes later and took Chanter off the ice on a stretcher and to a hospital. He was later airlifted to an Iowa City hospital, where he was examined by a neurologist and released Saturday night.
Shortly before he was released, Chanter wrote on Twitter: "Wanted to let everyone know I'm awake and okay. Thank you so much for all your thoughts prayers. Nothing compares to the hockey community."
Chanter was resting at his residence in Dubuque, Iowa, under the observation of the team trainer, said Dan Lehv, the president of the Fighting Saints. There was no timetable for his return.
The game was suspended after the second-period fight; a date for finishing the game was not set.
The U.S.H.L., considered the top American league at the junior level, has tolerated fighting. Many of its players go on to play in college, where fighting is curtailed. College players who fight are automatically ejected and suspended for the next game. Chanter has committed to the University of New Hampshire.
Dr. Michael J. Stuart of the Mayo Clinic said Sunday that Chanter's injury came very close to "exactly what we as researchers feared."
"Blows to the head from fists, and hitting your head on the ice from an unprotected fall with or without a helmet, can result in catastrophic injury or even death," said Stuart, who is also the chief medical officer for USA Hockey. "The time to stop fighting in junior hockey is now."
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