Hockey fan injured at game will sue his favorite team.

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Hockey fan injured at game will sue his favorite team.

The lawyer of hockey fan who was injured by a rogue puck while sitting the stands at a Vancouver Canucks' home game says that the team left his client no choice but to sue them.

According to the Vancouver Sun, Wayne Chi, was seeking “modest” damages from the hockey team after a puck hit him in the face at Rogers Arena, but they refused to negotiate with him.

Chi says he sustained serious injuries to his head, neck, back and shoulders. He also claims to still suffer from headaches, nausea and dizziness as a result of the incident.

Chi is accusing the Vancouver Canucks, Aquilini Investment Group Limited Partnership, Vancouver Hockey General Partner Inc. and Pacific Coast Arena Inc. of “negligence and/or breach of statutory duty” on a number of fronts including “failing to take reasonable care to ensure the Plaintiff would be safe” and “failing to comply with the provisions of the Occupiers Liability Act”.

Chi's lawyer, Manjot Hallen, told Vancity Buzz that the team refused to cooperate at all with his client.

“They’re saying ‘if you want anything from us, you have to start a claim’ – they left us with no choice but to start a civil claim here,” Manjot said. “We just wanted to have an open dialogue with the Canucks, but we never even got there.”

Manjot claims Chi wasn’t offered any kind of assistance from nearby staff.

“He was obviously injured, security guards onsite knew that he was injured and they didn’t offer any kind of first aid to him.”

Although he admits his client has not lost any work days because of the injuries, the damages they seek aren't unreasonable, as the Canucks are a multi-million dollar corporation.

“At the end of the day, they’re telling our client that the only way you’re going to get anything out of us – even an apology – is by filing a claim. We’re not in the business of rolling over.”

Chi is seeking unspecified damages from the Canucks, although his lawyer describes the monetary amount as "modest".

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