Patrice Bergeron rocks full face shield after taking high stick
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It has been quite the week in the NHL for players taking sharp objects in the face. You had Detroit's Drew Miller – who somehow played Thursday night in spite of taking a skate to the face on Tuesday which barely missed his eyeball.
Bruins center Patrice Bergeron took a Justin Abdelkader high stick on a face off in the second period of Boston's Thursday game against Detroit. Bergeron returned in the third period with the full shield to help Boston to a 3-2 win. Bergeron took 20 stitches from the play.
From the Boston Globe:
There was a smudge of fresh blood on Patrice Bergeron’s upper lip after Thursday’s game, right next to the horror-mask line of dark stitches that ran from his lip to his nose.
Here is the Gif of the incident. (S/t Steph as always)
here's a new angle of Bergeron pic.twitter.com/9MwJIamq09
— Stephanie Vail (@myregularface) April 3, 2015
Said Bergeron to the Globe:
“It was really a deep one."
"They had to stitch it up on the inside and work their way up to the outside and stitch it, so they did a good job. I guess that’s the end of my modeling career. But that’s fine.”
No, we’re not going to start a debate on why players need to wear masks like in college. But the full face shield has been our biggest All-Star the last few days.
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