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On that fatal night at Met Center on Jan. 13,cheap jordan shoes,cheap jordans for sale, 1968, the Minnesota North Stars center, playing against the Oakland Seals, carried the puck across the blue line and cut to the right while Seals defensemen Larry Cahan and Ron Harris closed in. One of their sticks tangled with Masterton's skates as he slid a pass to his wing, and he lost his balance,cheap jordans for sale, pitching forward. He didn't see the other defender, who caught him with a clean check that knocked him backward. Masterton, who was not wearing a helmet,cheap jordans As sad as it is,cheap jordans for sale, smacked the back of his head on the ice. "It sounded like a baseball bat hitting a ball," teammate André