After the puck caromed off his leg and cleared the zone – the best possible outcome – pain oozed out of the grimace that took hold of Coyotes winger Jordan Martinook’s face.
He hobbled to the bench and once there, Martinook was still struggling to stay upright.
“It got me kind of in the nerve, side of the knee,” he said. “You get those quite a bit, but I didn’t really have any feeling in the leg. It kind of looked like I was doing the funky chicken a little bit. Yeah, it’s all right now.