HAMMONTON, N.J. -- A second blood test confirms that Philadelphia Flyers goaltender Pelle Lindbergh was legally drunk when he was rammed his sports car into concrete steps and was fatally injured, state police said Thursday.
'There's no question he was drunk,' said Lt. Jim Shaeffer of the New Jersey State Police Laboratory in Hammonton.
Shaeffer said police technicians 'are not concerned in the least' with a discrepancy between a 0.17 percent reading on the second blood alcohol test and the first reading of 0.24 percent.
The difference in the two readings can be attributed to 'burnoff time,' Shaeffer said, adding the blood removed for the second test was taken about 90 minutes after the first.
Lindbergh, 26, had just left an after-hours club in suburban Philadelphia early Sunday when he lost control of his turbo-charged Porsche, failed to negotiate a turn, and crashed head-on into school steps in Somerdale, N.J.
Two passengers were seriously injured, and Lindbergh was declared brain dead later Sunday.
The former Swedish Olympian, voted the best goalie in the National Hockey League last year, was taken off life support systems Tuesday. His family agreed to let his vital organs be donated for transplant.
Assistant Camden County prosecutor James Lynch said his office would have no comment on the second blood test.
'I can't confirm or deny anything about our investigation into the matter,' Lynch said, adding the prosecutor's office was treating the Lindbergh incident as a routine investigation into a fatal accident.
