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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2001 births
2021 deaths
HC Dinamo Saint Petersburg players
Ice hockey players who died while playing
Russian ice hockey defencemen
Sport deaths in Russia
Ice hockey people from Chelyabinsk
21st-century Russian sportsmen
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