So if you have to be nailed with a slap shot, you’re going to hope it comes from anyone but Shea Weber, the Montreal Canadiens defenseman who has won the hardest shot competition at the NHL All-Star Game three years in a row.
But Avalanche winger Matt Nieto was nailed in the leg by a Weber shot midway through the third period of Colorado’s 4-0 win Tuesday night and — unsurprisingly — went down and stayed down until getting aid to leave the ice. On Wednesday, after the Avalanche practice at Family Sports Center, coach Jared Bednar said Nieto, who hadn’t practiced, wasn’t seriously injured.