During the second period of a game between SKA-Neva and Dynamo St. Petersburg in the Russian second league, 2021 Pittsburgh Penguins draft pick Kirill Tankov was stretchered off the ice following a head first collision with the boards.
Tankov was going hard into the corner to retrieve the puck when he was illegally checked from behind by Dynamo defenseman Artyom Maltsev. Tankov immediately crashed to the ice where he remained for several minutes while being attended to by medical staff.
Scary. Watching SKA-Neva's game right now, Penguins prospect Kirill Tankov (seventh round, 2021) just went headfirst into the boards and had to be stretchered off the ice.