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Columbus Blue Jackets goaltender Matiss Kivlenieks, 24, died of chest trauma from an errant fireworks mortar blast in what authorities described Monday as a tragic accident at a Michigan home on the Fourth of July. I m still struggling with it , said Dennis Canfield, Kivlenieks’ former coach with the Forest Lake Lakers. It doesn t almost seem real.
Canfield coached the young Latvian goalie for the Forest Lake Lakers in the former Minnesota Junior Hockey League back in 2014. Every time we showed up at the rink, we had an advantage, we had a guy that everybody knew was the best player in the rink,” Canfield said. “To have that guy, it s a mental advantage for sure, he won a lot of games for us.
Lt. Jason Meier told the Free Press that the calls came in around 10:13 p.m. and paramedics arrived to the scene in 4 minutes and 38 seconds where they found Kivlenieks unresponsive. Kivlenieks was transported to Ascension Providence Hospital in Novi, where he was pronounced dead, Meier said.
Police appear to have redacted some of the audio from the phone calls, including the location of the incident.
While Novi police said an initial investigation indicated that Kivlenieks died after he slipped and fell while fleeing a hot tub following a fireworks malfunction, an autopsy performed Monday found Kivlenieks died from chest trauma from a fireworks mortar blast.
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Columbus Blue Jackets goaltender Matiss Kivlenieks died of a chest injury caused by an errant fireworks mortar blast on Sunday. According to police in Novi, Michigan, the firework tilted slightly and started firing toward partygoers, with one striking Kivlenieks and causing major damage to his heart and lungs. (Initial reports that Kivlenieks died from head injuries sustained during a fall were inaccurate.) There was some minor injury to his exterior, which would lead us to believe that some portion of the firework made contact with him, but we re not really sure if it was a direct hit or whether the percussion from the explosion caused his injuries, Lt. Jason Meier said, according to