Blackhawks fan collapses at game and dies -- deja vu?

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This story is one that simply stops you cold.

Marguerite Kuhlman, a 68-year-old retiree, was at the Chicago Blackhawks game at the United Center on Monday night. She collapsed during the game and later died.

The Chicago Tribune subsequently carried an eerie report. The woman’s sisters, Patricia and Dorothea Kuhlman, said that their mother, Mildred Kuhlman, died March 30, 1986 -- while attending a Blackhawks game at Chicago Stadium.

‘We’ve been hockey fans for many, many years,’ Patricia Kuhlman told the newspaper. ‘People laugh at us because we’re old ladies who like to go to hockey games.’

The Kuhlman sisters have season tickets just 15 rows off of the ice. The two older sisters had intended to accompany Marguerite Kuhlman to Monday’s game, but they had to attend a meeting of election judges, so she went to the game with a neighbor.

On Tuesday, the medical examiner’s office said that Kuhlman had died of heart disease.

On March 30, 1986, the Blackhawks lost in overtime to the Toronto Maple Leafs, 5-4. On Monday, the Blackhawks beat the Avalache, 6-2.

-- Debbie Goffa