"Since I threw in a [simulated] game the other day, I kind of felt like I got those jitters out of the way," said the 24-year-old Mitchell. "Beforehand, it ran through my mind, like, 'I wonder if I'm going to think about it when I'm out there.' But I didn't in the sim game, and I think that helped. It didn't bother me last night."
Mitchell said that he had previously been hit in the side and the leg by liners, and considers himself fortunate that he only received a small nasal fracture in his latest incident. A small bump remains on Mitchell's nose, which he says only hurts if he presses on it, as well as the remnants of a fading black right eye.