Hockey Player Has No Damage to His Neck, Coach Reports

hockey player Sean Panetta has no damage to his neck and could be back on the ice as soon as the team's practice Monday afternoon, coach Rejean Trembley said on Friday.

The Ravens forward, who was injured in the team's on Wednesday, cast quiet over the Southfield Sports Arena when he went down late in the game.

Panetta was hit with an inadvertent high stick in the neck area by Country Day's Scott Wolf. The Ravens co-captain hit the ice and boards head first because he was tangled up with Wolf’s teammate Shane Switzer.

Panetta stayed face down on the ice for several minutes while trainers from the Country Day staff examined him. The trainers told Trembley that his co-captain had tenderness in his neck.

Panetta was moving both his arms and legs, but in high school hockey, if a player has any sort of neck pain they are immobilized and taken to the hospital for precautionary reasons.

An ambulance was called and Panetta was carted off the ice by Emergency Medical Technicians to get X-rays. The game was delayed for 30 minutes at the 11:52 mark.