Fellow goalie pays tribute to Jenkins

Nice tribute to Ian Jenkins by fellow goalie Brandon Hope of the OHL Sarnia Sting.
Hope's mask this season honours Jenkins, the 15-year-old Michigan goalie who died in an accident before realizing his dream to play in the Ontario Hockey League. Jenkins was a prospect of the London Knights.
Hope and Jenkins were friends whose minor hockey careers intersected.

Hockey game honours Ian Jenkins

This is a very good idea.
As part of the funeral arrangements for 15-year-old Ian Jenkins, friends will play a hockey game, with everyone wearing Ian's No. 35.
The London Knights prospect from Michigan died Monday from head injuries suffered when he fell from a pickup truck.
Here's a link to a story from AnnArbor.com.
Here's a link with the details of the post-funeral hockey game.

15-year-old Knights prospect dies

The always excellent Morris Dalla Costa of The London Free Press wrote an excellent column today about Ian Jenkins, the London Knights goaltending prospect who died of head injuries Monday (May 23, 2011) after falling out of a pickup truck near Ann Arbor, Mich., last week.
Life's not always fair.

Celebration sours with fall from truck in Thamesford

On the heels of a similar accident in Michigan which killed 15-year-old future London Knight Ian Jenkins comes this story from Thamesford, Ont., where a junior hockey player fell off the tailgate of a pickup truck following a Victoria Day parade.
He was airlifted to hospital and it sounds like, thankfully, he's going to be OK.
But one wonders, are athletically gifted young people bigger risk takers than other kids? Is their judgment powered by joy and adrenaline instead of making more boring but safe choices?
Here's the Thamesford story link to The London Free Press.

15-year-old goalie off life support

Ian Jenkins of Michigan had a bright future ahead of him in major junior hockey. Drafted two weeks ago by the London Knights, everyone expected he would eventually become the team's No. 1 goaltender.
No longer.
Ian was thrown from the back of a pickup truck near Ann Arbor, hit his head and has now been taken off life support in hospital.
His father issued a detailed statement, reported by Morris Dalla Costa of The London Free Press. On behalf of the family, Joel Jenkins expresses heartfelt appreciation for the concern and sympathy of the hockey community.