A Long Island high school hockey player whose off-ice, near-death experience and broken neck rocked the sports world is miraculously walking and back for his senior year.
“There were several big miracles,” Mark Dubeau, father of Smithtown West’s Connor Dubeau, told The Post.
Last month, Connor had slipped and fallen under the waters of Gilgo Beach, breaking the C-4 bone in his neck, and rendering the 17-year-old temporarily paralyzed while under the water.
Close friend and junior Islanders teammate Kevin Bonino, a senior who also plays for Chaminade High School, quickly sprang into action at the beach. He got his buddy above water before running out of oxygen, thanks to the help of another young man, Jake Geller.
“He was able to walk out of the hospital almost two-and-a-half-weeks late