Canadian hockey player credits God with sparing his life after near-fatal accident

A Canadian hockey player has attributed his survival and recovery from a deep cut near his jugular vein to God’s intercession.

In a December 11 interview with The Epoch Times, Cole Cusitar, a Saskatchewan hockey player for the Churchbridge Imperials senior league team, recounted the story of his recent near-fatal injury in which a skate by an opposing player sliced his neck deeply near his jugular vein.

“God was looking out for me that evening,” the 35-year-old senior league player shared, adding that if the cut was an inch lower he “might not have been having this conversation.”

Cusitar, the Churchbridge Imperials team captain, was injured during a December 7 games against the Esterhazy Flyers when he and an opponent fell and got tangled. Cusitar recalled feeling a cold slap across his jaw.

“Just when [the opposing player] fell, one of his back legs just come up and happened to kick me,” Cusitar said, noting that he “didn’t feel much pain at all.”

“When I started to see the blood, I knew I was in rough shape,” he added.

The Esterhazy Flyers player’s state had sliced Cusitar’s jaw near the jugular vein, causing him to bleed badly. The gash was several centimetres wide and 15 centimetres long. Thankfully, it did not cut Cusitar’s jugular vein, but a smaller vein just below his ear. The cut was just half an inch from his jugular vein.