Box Score Many hockey players have stories about their past and present teammates, but when your teammate is also your roommate and takes every class with you it's even more special.

That's the case with first year Brock Badger Men's Hockey players, goaltender Clint Windsor and forward Yanni Rallis. 

That special bond was put to the test Saturday night at the Seymour-Hannah Centre after Rallis trying to bump his opponent off the puck crashed gruesomely face first into the stanchion by the Brock bench.   Rallis laid unconscious for a number of minutes in front of silent, stunned crowd  before being stretchered off the ice and taken to hospital via ambulance after a 20 minute delay. 

As Rallis lay on the ice surrounded by his parents, emergency personnel and doctors, a number of his teammates including his roommates , Andrew Radjenovic, Gregory Jambrosich and Windsor circled the 21-year old Hamilton native.

"It was a scary moment for sure.  You never want to see one of your teammates go down, especially your best friend," said Windsor who played minor hockey with Rallis for close to 12 years.  "We were trying to get his mouthguard out because he couldn't breathe and just talking to him telling him to battle through it – come on Yanni you got this.  We have a tight knit group at our house, we all grew up together, you never want to see that.  It was scary."

Rallis did give the thumbs up as left the ice on the stretcher bringing the crowd to full roar.

"We just knew it was time to kick some ass," Windsor added.  "We just wanted to do it for Yanni."

And do it for Yanni was definitely the mantra of the night.  The Brock forward left 5:13 into the second period with the Badgers on top 3-0, and they rallied behind Rallis the rest of the way enroute to a 9-1 victory over the RMC Paladins.

Windsor made 29 saves for his first career OUA victory.

Badgers Head Coach Murray Nystrom echoed many of his goaltenders comments. 

"It's scary, because you just don't know in the initial moments how serious it is," Nystrom said.  "It was good to rally behind Yanni and our games have been very tense and stressful – we don't get many games like this.  And Clint (Windsor) was sound and that's what you need from your goaltender on any given night."

Brock outshot RMC 36-30 overall as seven different goal scorers found the back of the net.  Jordan Gignac and Taylor Fielding scored two goals each, while Tyson Dallman, Radjenovic, Mason Malkowich, Jamie Kendra and Dylan MacEachern added singles.

The Badgers improved to (4-6-1 OUA) with the victory, while RMC fell to (0-12-0).

As of late Saturday night, Rallis was reported to be alert, in good spirits and resting comfortably in hospital.
 
The entire Brock Badger community is wishing Yanni a full and healthy recovery.