Timur Faizutdinov Death: A 19-year-old Russian hockey player has passed on in the wake of being hit in the head by the puck during a game, his club and the association said on Tuesday.

Defenseman Timur Faizutdinov was playing for Dynamo St Petersburg’s lesser group in a season finisher game against Loko Yaroslavl on Friday when he was struck by a puck hit from the impartial zone.

Faizutdinov fell and was treated in the ice by the group specialist and paramedics prior to being taken to a medical clinic in the city of Yaroslavl, 160 miles upper east of Moscow.

The Junior Hockey League said Faizutdinov passed on Tuesday after “specialists battled for Timur’s life throughout three days.”

Dynamo said forthcoming games in rivalries, including the Kontinental Hockey League, will start with brief’s quiet for Faizutdinov.