Ricky Wrathall was a forward with the Glace Bay Seniors hockey team. During a game in 1983, he finished his shift on the ice and collapsed on the players’ bench. He was pronounced dead at the hospital a short time later. He was 22 years old.

Now, 43 years later, Wrathall is being inducted into the Glace Bay Minor Hockey Association’s hall of fame.

"We were devastated,” says Doris Bourgeois, Wrathall’s sister. “Ricky was our world. It was very tough. He was a special guy and hockey was a big part of his life. He was a very kind person and hockey was everything to him.”

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