It’s been a rough start to the 2014-15 season for St. Louis Blues captain David Backes, with Monday’s moment being the roughest, as he took an errant slap shot to the face:
Screening a goalie is a great way to suffer facial injuries that will leave others squeamish; this old post on Keith Tkachuk’s hideous issues is a great throwback to that.
Backes described his considerable agony to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
“I felt like my face was going to fall off, so we got out of there and got some painkillers on board to try to alleviate that,” Backes said. “It was a tough night to deal with the pain and have ice on there for most of the night, just trying to get some remnants of a night’s sleep. … It was some of the worst misery I’ve been in.”
Here’s the part that might leaving you holding your mouth (or making a “Six Million Dollar Man” reference?):
“There’s a few (teeth) that were halfway gone,” Backes said. “They didn’t save them, but they rebuilt them and they look like normal teeth … They did a great job. It’s a temporary fix but it lets me eat well.”