The injury suffered by Boston College freshman Patrick Eaves on Saturday is more serious than originally suspected.<\/p>\n
Eaves, who leads the Eagles with 10 goals, suffered a fracture of the C-5 vertebra after a freak collision during Saturday’s 2-2 tie with Maine. Eaves was motionless for several minutes before finally moving his arms and legs.<\/p>\n
Eaves will be fitted with a brace to keep his neck immobilized, and will need at least six weeks to recover.<\/p>\n
“He’s expected to make a full recovery,” said BC coach Jerry York to the Boston Globe<\/em> “After getting that call, none of us could sleep. It’s a bad situation, but the best of a bad situation. It was a clean break.”<\/p>\n According to York, the injury occured when Eaves skated backwards into a stick that, in effect, clotheslined him. BC’s Chris Collins and Maine’s Robert Liscak were battling for control of Collins’ stick, which created the clothesline.<\/p>\n “The chance of it happening were one in a million,” said York to the Globe<\/em>. “I’ve never seen that before.”<\/p>\n Eaves was recently selected to be on the U.S. Junior National Team for the upcoming World Junior Championships in Nova Scotia, Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The injury suffered by Boston College freshman Patrick Eaves on Saturday is more serious than originally suspected. Eaves, who leads the Eagles with 10 goals, suffered a fracture of the C-5 vertebra after a freak collision during Saturday’s 2-2 tie with Maine. Eaves was motionless for several minutes before finally moving his arms and legs. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n