It started off well and then turned into a disaster impossible to recover from. Is that like, a summation of the Flames’ season as a whole? Or did that not really start off as well.
A game misconduct, you say?
You know what, good for Johnny Gaudreau.
Taking a skate to the neck is always going to be a totally fluke accident, harrowing as it may be. Taking a stick blade to the neck – or at least really dang close to it – is not. Any time something like that comes anywhere near your neck or head area you’re probably going to flinch, even if you hadn’t just suffered a cut to the exact same area.