Ice hockey player Victor Bjorkung speaks to BBC Sport about the pain of losing Nottingham Panthers team-mate Adam Johnson.
"I think about it every day, more or less. I get a lot of flashbacks, and they're not very pleasant."
Bjorkung left the team a few weeks later and returned to his native Sweden, traumatised by what he had seen happen to his team-mate, who he called "an unbelievable guy". "I do remember most of it," he says. "Everything happened so fast, and obviously I was on the ice when it happened. It still feels unreal. I do get a lot of flashbacks, and they're not very pleasant."
"A lot of the trauma I’ve been dealing with and all my team-mates I've been speaking to after I left, it’s not easy."What happened to American Johnson was a big enough wake-up call to Bjorkung of the dangers of ice hockey.It struck his groin area, and cut through his protective gear and skin "like butter".
"It was only a centimetre or two from the artery in my leg. So I was lucky, and that also took me back a little bit mentally, besides the physical part I had to recover from.
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