I mean, we know why he did it. The Moore/Naslund hit.The Steve Moore / Bertuzzi thing was alarming, because it was such a non-hockey play to pile drive a guy’s head into the ice that it seemed likely to be more than just like, a severe concussion. Not a fan of either team but for whatever reason I was tuning in and remember Bertuzzi started ignoring the play and following Moore around the ice.
Yeah, I knew I wasn't dreaming this. I was watching that one too.
Pretty sure I tuned in late for the Fischer incident. I remember seeing the replays in-game. (I grew up a Wings fan)
Weird note: I wasn't that concerned after Kozlov got KO'd by Stevens. Not sure if that's because I was too young to understand or if that's how the times were.
The Draper injury was obviously a scary one. But I feel like we didn't know just how bad that one was until after the game, and in the days following when some of the details came out. (If memory serves, it was like 3 weeks before he could eat solid food?)
I remember Roenick taking a slapshot to the eye/cheek around 2004 when he was with the Flyers, playing the Rangers at MSG. Pretty crazy to hear how messed up the recovery was.Yzerman takes a puck in the eye -- The scary thing about this one was that, if you followed Yzerman, you'd seen him stone-faced in the midst of some pretty crazy pain, but here, he panicked on the ice. You could tell something was very wrong, and then came the blood. The pictures of his eye after the game are some of the more horrific injury pictures I've seen. I thought his career was over.
Bertuzzi/Moore -- This is the scariest one for me. I saw it by sheer coincidence. I was just flipping through channels as a teenager and happened to stop on the game for a couple of minutes. I don't remember if I stopped because I was aware of the tension between the two teams or if I just happened to stop and watch. Wasn't planning to watch the whole game or anything, just check in for a minute, and then boom, the NHL as we know it changes.
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I remember this being a pretty shocking moment.
Came here to say the Pacioretty one.I don't think I saw Chara/Pacioretty live, but I think I flipped that game on while Pacioretty was down.
Edit: Not sure why I thought this was Lars Eller.