Eli Palfreyman -- a rising junior ice hockey star -- has died after he collapsed during a preseason tournament game on Tuesday in Ontario.
He was only 20 years old.
Palfreyman -- who was in his 2nd year with the Ayr Centenntials of the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League -- collapsed while he and his team were in the locker room during the first intermission of their Ayr Mutual Global Invitational tournament game at the North Dumfries Community Complex.
Waterloo Regional Police tell us officers arrived to the arena after receiving a medical emergency call, adding that "members of the community assisted the individual until emergency services attended.