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Timur Ramilevich Faizutdinov (; 6 October 2001 – 16 March 2021) was a Russian ice hockey
defenceman Defence or defense (in American English) in ice hockey is a player position that is primarily responsible for preventing the opposing team from Goal (ice hockey), scoring. They are often referred to as defencemen, D, D-men or blueliners (the l ...
. He played for Dinamo Saint Petersburg, ( JHL) of which he was the team captain at the time of his death. On 12 March 2021, Faizutdinov was struck in the head by a hockey puck while playing in the final 16 of the Kharlamov Cup against Loko in Yaroslavl, Russia. Faizutdinov's father, Ramil, wrote on social media that his son was struck in the area of the carotid artery. Faizutdinov was hospitalized in serious condition, and died four days later, on 16 March, at the age of 19 years old. HC Dinamo Saint Petersburg announced that upcoming games would begin with a minute of silence for Faizutdinov.


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