Duluth Central Parent dies in freak accident.

This is very sad. This was a freak accident and everyone needs to fell bad for both familys that were involved. The dad that got hit with the puck was a great guy. I can't amaditoin how the kid that shot the puck feels.

I know a little more about this as some of my family was at the game watching there kids play and they choice not to play. There was not rought playing in the game and the shot was an normal shot that took place.

I do not feel that I should share the information I know because of what has happend at this time.

Everyone needs to keep these familys in there hearts.


Duluth man pronounced brain dead after 'fluke' hockey game accidentBY PETER PASSINEWS TRIBUNE STAFF WRITERA retired police officer and youth athletics coach was declared brain dead Sunday, one day after his injury during a father-son hockey game.
Although he was wearing a helmet, a puck struck Dennin Bauers, 52, just below his ear during the third period of a game that pitted members of Duluth Central's boys hockey team against their fathers Saturday morning at the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center. Bauers' 17-year-old son, Dean, is a junior forward and defenseman for the Trojans, and his 14-year-old son, Bryan, is a freshman defenseman.
Bauers was about 10 feet in front of the net when the accident occurred. He was struck by a wrist shot taken from the top of the point, according to Jim Sweeney, another father who participated in the game with his 16-year-old son of the same name, a junior left wing.
"He (Bauers) grabbed his ear, went down to a knee and then lost consciousness in a matter of seconds," Sweeney said. "It happened so quickly."
Sweeney said a couple of people began to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation on Bauers as another person called 911.
He was taken to St. Luke's hospital, where he remained on life support in the intensive care unit Sunday evening.
Jean Erickson, a registered nurse and administrative supervisor at St. Luke's said, "Mr. Bauers has designated on his license his desire to become an organ donor, and his family has chosen to go forward with his wishes."
Friends and family members may monitor developments and share memories of Bauers by visiting the following Web address: caringbridge.org/visit/denninbauers.
A journal from the Bauers family, dated 10:55 a.m. Sunday, said: "The results of the final angiogram indicate no blood flow to the brain. Dennin is considered legally brain dead and is being prepared for organ donation to help other families in need. We are confident his spirit will live on. Dennin will be forever in our hearts and minds."
"The doctors are saying his injury was a fluke," said Scott Lyons, Duluth's former police chief and a friend of Bauers. "If the puck had hit him1 inch in any other direction, it probably would have been nothing more than a bad bruise."
The impact of the blow apparently ruptured an artery, Lyons said.
Dr. Benjamin Owens of Hibbing, an 80-year-old physician who has spent much of his career tending to hockey players, said he was surprised to hear of the fatal injury.
"I've been taking care of the Hibbing hockey team for nigh on 50 years, and I've never heard or even read about something like that happening on the ice," he said. "It sounds like a very rare and tragic event."
Bauers coached youth hockey, Little League baseball and VFW baseball for many years. He also served on the board of the Duluth Heights Community Club.
"He's one of those guys who has been deeply involved his whole life," said Damon Anderson, past president of the Duluth Heights Community Club. "In everything he did, it was always about the kids."
Anderson said Bauers' devotion to the community seemed to be ingrained from his upbringing. He noted that Roger Bauers, Dennin's father, also was active in community causes.
Angelo DeCaro coached hockey and baseball with Bauers and considered him a close friend.
"Denny had such a passion for kids," DeCaro said. "He cared about them on and off the field, win or lose. This man has touched a lot of lives."
As news of Bauers' injury spread, dozens of friends and acquaintances gathered at St. Luke's. Lyons said the hospital overflowed Saturday and Sunday with people wishing to lend their support to Anne Leslie Peterson, Bauers's wife, and sons Dean and Bryan.
Bauers retired from the Duluth Police Department in April 2004 after 25 years. Bauers, along with Lt. John Hall, oversaw the special investigations unit, which heads up drug cases. They retired simultaneously.
Peterson, director of UMD's campus police, remains active in law enforcement.
Kim Keuning attended Central High with Bauers, and her family became close friends with his.
"It's strange to think that he spent all those years chasing dangerous criminals, and then to have this happen to him playing hockey when he was even wearing a helmet," she said. "It's so sad."
Keuning's husband, John, coached baseball with Bauers and said that if Saturday's injury claims his friend's life, as appears likely, it would be a tremendously sad but somehow fitting end.
"He loved to be on the ballfield or the ice, playing with his boys," John Keuning said. "And if you were asked how you want to die, who wouldn't want it to be doing the thing you love best?"
Keuning said the first time he met Bauers was at a Duluth Central reunion. The crowd was so large that the photographer had to shoot the class in two groups. The images were then spliced together to create a photo of the entire, unified class.
Keuning watched as Bauers slipped into both pictures so that he appeared twice in the finished class picture.
"Denny never took life so seriously that he forgot to have fun," Keuning said. "The No. 1 thing was to have a good time."
Just a couple of weeks ago, Lyons encountered Bauers at a Salvation Army kettle in front of Cub Foods.
"He was ringing his bell and shouting, 'Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas,' " Lyons said.
"That's the way Denny was -- energy plus," Lyons said. "He never seemed to have a down day, and for being a cop all those years and running the drug unit, that's really something. Denny was always up and positive."
"He was one of the greatest people I've ever met," Sweeney said. "Denny had immense inner strength and cared for everyone around him. He was an all-around great guy."


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