Wednesday, May 4, 2011

A Missed Hit Leaves An NHL Player Motionless On The Ice

Hockey to me has to be the toughest sport.  It not only takes football and rugby and combine it but then they take a step further and play it on Ice.  To make things even better playoff hockey makes things much more personal because anyone and everyone wnats to hold up that cup.  Last nights game with Late in the first period of game 2 of the Eastern Conference semi-finals, the Boston Bruins’ Adam McQuaid lunged at (and missed) Philadelphia Flyers captain Mike Richards.  
Richards was to the left of the Bruins’ net and he deftly moved out of the way of the check. McQuaid led with his elbow, missed, lost his balance, crashed into the boards headfirst. He then remained motionless for a few moments. Luckily, it sounds like he’ll be okay but good lord this is actually


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