The game was stopped and paramedics were called, Balkind unfortunately didn't survive. However the hockey world never forgot Balkind and hockey players all over the world including myself put a hockey stick on their front porches to honour the young boy.
Today marks one year since it happened and Balkind's death has made changes around the world to enforce neck guard rules and improvements to the equipment to hopefully prevent any more players to have the same unfortunate fate.
With that said Oilers Daily would like to take a moment to give our sincerest condolences to the Balkind family and let them know we won't ever forget Teddy, may he rest in peace.