You know you’ve encountered a hard hit when the resulting mess of a helmet is described in at least one place as “shrapnel.”
That seemed appropriate enough for what amounted to Vancouver Canucks defenseman Luca Sbisa’s lid after a hard hit by Garnet Hathaway of the Calgary Flames.
Watch the heavy impact and truly bizarre “clean-up” job in the video above. This GIF also captures the Canucks staffer cleaning the helmet fragments from Sbisa’s scalp. Weird/gross.
— steph (@myregularface) January 8, 2017
Usually people utter the phrase “Poor Sbisa” in reaction to others criticizing Sbisa for a bad play or for something that maybe is not all his fault. This time, it is a purer pity, as that looked painful.