EDMONTON
When the hockey puck skipped up at 90 miles an hour and smashed him directly in the face, Logan Couture knew right away that his mouth was in big trouble.
He did not know that more than two weeks later, he would continue to be dealing with a tooth-and-palate injury so grisly that it occasionally still hurts him “to breathe.”
To breathe? Yes, to breathe.
(Feel free to wince here.)
It’s hard to play any sport without breathing, as we all know. Couture is breathing and handling the discomfort as he practices with the Sharks.