Paramedic goaltender saves a mans life in the crowd!

A goaltender playing for the Gander Flyers of the Central-West Senior Hockey League in Newfoundland, was not only stopping pucks but saving lives as well! Flyers netminder Patrick O'Brien helped save a mans life at the hockey game he was playing in. The man in the crowd at a hockey game had become unresponsive. Here is the statement The Gander Beacon: "O’Brien — wearing his skates, hockey pants and one goal pad — raced from the Flyers’ dressing room and joined Gander mayor and retired paramedic Claude Elliott and Tom Whalen, a Flyers’ board member and also a former paramedic, who were assisting the stricken fan. The man had no pulse and was not breathing. 'I just hopped in and started chest compressions,' said O’Brien, a 26-year-old Mount Pearl native who graduated from his paramedic program in June and started with Central Health in August. O’Brien twice shocked the man with an automated external defibrillator before on-duty Gander paramedics arrived on the scene." According to the story, the man began to show signs of life even before the ambulance arrived on scene. This is without a doubt the best save of Patty O'Brien's career! A true hero.