UND Hockey Player Says He Was Unprepared For Temps

March 18, 2011 8:59 AM

UND hockey forward Danny Kristo. (credit: FightingSioux.com)

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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A University of North Dakota hockey player who suffered frostbite to toes on his right foot Jan. 31 says he was woefully unprepared for the minus-33 degree wind chill temperatures that evening.

Sophomore forward Danny Kristo told the Grand Forks Herald that he was wearing tennis shoes and no socks when he decided to walk to a girl’s apartment about seven-tenths of a mile away. He says his right foot got caught in snow, and when he pulled up his foot his shoe was off.

The 20-year-old is a draft pick of the NHL’s Montreal Canadians.

He has returned to practice and could play this weekend at the Western Collegiate Hockey Association Final Five at the Xcel Energy Center.

UND Hockey Player Says He Was Unprepared For Temps

Daryl

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Daryl

Is there more to the story? Did he lose a toe? Was he intoxicated? Is he from Hawaii?

#1 Gopher fan

no he’s just not to bright !!!! ……………..he’s from…………………..the Twin Cites should know about the cold and what to wear when it’s 30 below windchill !

Mark

Me thinks someone had too much to drink and decided to take a nap in a snowbank.
pat

In the good old days I remember running around with a short jacket, no hat, flimsy shoes…now much to my husbands chagrin, I cover up from head to toe. I am sure he learned a valuable lesson.
Todd

30 below windchill and he has tennis shoes and no socks? In Grand Forks ND where frozen hell is the norm no less. I think he had a little anti freeze in the old system and wasn’t running on all cylinders at the time.
Victim Du Jour

Sounds like he was going to get some, I remember walking great distances for warmth up north when I was younger.

If he had been drinking, at least he was putting himself in danger rather than driving.
Bill

Drunk…End of story!