Scary moment in Columbus on Saturday night as Carolina Hurricanes goaltender Cam Ward had to leave the game early in the first period and be taken to a hospital after receiving cut on his leg following a collision with the skate blade of Blue Jackets forward Rick Nash. Ward was down for quite a while, and as he slowly made his way to the bench blood could be seen on the ice. Video after the jump (and it's not as graphic as you might think. It's hard to even see what happened).
According to Hurricanes head coach Paul Maurice following the game, Ward's injury is "significant." Obviously the first thing that comes to mind when talking about players being injured by skate blades are the horrific accidents involving former Buffalo Sabres goalie Clint Malarchuk and former Florida Panthers forward Richard Zednik.
Hopefully for Ward's sake, his injury isn't anywhere near as serious.
As for the game itself, the Hurricanes dropped their 12th in a row, 3-2, and fall to 2-11-3 overall. They currently have a league-worst seven points in the standings.
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11-08-2009 @ 7:22AM
supermanredblue8 said...
I hate to see NHL, players get injured, but i know its part of the game something should
of been called though. The new NHL sucks sometime.
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11-09-2009 @ 10:47PM
Matt said...
What would be called, though? Goalie interference? Nope. Nothing could be done; it was a one-in-a-million thing. (Well, with Cam Ward, I guess it was a two-in-a-million. ;))
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