Kavalam Panicker RIIP: Le Ski, Le Hose, Maur Ice

The Deaths in 2016 site lists under June 26:

Kavalam Narayana Panicker, 88, Indian dramatist, theatre director and poet

His surname contains a cryptic communication... along with the twin 88, that we would do well to heed.  Note from his wiki page:

Kavalam Narayana Panicker (28 April 1928 – 26 June 2016)

His birthday and date of death generates an "April 28, ___, June 26/ Date Sequence" pattern-cluster.   Bridging the gap will likely give us a clue as to what we need to "panic" about.  Following the usual investigative format, bridging the gap gives us:

• 2000 – Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer and pilot (b. 1912)
• 2000 – Murray MacLehose, Baron MacLehose of Beoch, Scottish politician and diplomat, 25th Governor of Hong Kong(b. 1917)
• 2000 – Maurice Richard, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1921)

Okay, so note the cryptic French/English phrase found in various aspects of their names: Le ski, Le hose, Maur ice.   Which translates further into "his ski, his hose, more ice".

Note the following etymology:

• ski (n.)  related to Old Norse skið "long snowshoe," literally "stick of wood, firewood," cognate with Old English scid "stick of wood," obsolete English shide "piece of wood split off from timber;" Old High German skit, German Scheit "log," from Proto-Germanic *skid- "to divide, split," from PIE root *skei- "to cut, split" 

Another addition to the recent "Wood/Would" pattern-cluster.