Kids can find all kinds of ways to get hurt, not all of which are on the ice.
I spend hours with my son in a Mississauga hospital during a tournament a few years ago. He had a stitch-worthy cut on his foot after slicing it on a spiral staircase leading from the hotel pool to a squash court the kids had commandeered for a mini-sticks game. A Saturday night in a big city hospital emergency department is no place for a kid. After the bars close, weird starts happening including a fight victim who seemed to be missing part of his scalp. It made the elderly lady with the non-stop bloody nose seem like nothing.
A story making the rounds in London this season has a teen player throwing all his gear around in the dressing room in a fit of rage after losing a game. Unfortunately when he whipped his skates, he hit a teammate and cut him in the head. The angry child is now out of hockey.
Sometimes it is your own teammates on the ice who do the accidental damage. Last night when our starting goaltender was preparing to warm up, he took a shot on the fingers. Not pleasant.
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