When Mika Zibanejad took a slapshot off the ankle killing a penalty and consequently dropped to the ice in a heap of pain, the entire New York Rangers organization gasped.
The sight of seeing Zibanejad unable to put any weight on his right foot while being helped off the ice made everyone from the fans to the head coach ill.
“I was sick,” Gerard Gallant responded. “I was happier than the fans when he came out of the runway for the third period. It’s a gutsy effort and obviously Mika doing that… it was a big play.