It looked like a scene out of a hokey hockey movie — a player gets gashed in the head, bleeds all over the ice, gets several dozen stitches, then returns to score the game winner.
Except that really happened Friday night, as Blue Jackets left wing Matt Calvert scored a short-handed, tie-breaking goal in the third period to help Columbus beat the Rangers 4-2.
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It's an outcome no one would have predicted midway through the second period, after Calvert took a slapshot to the face off the stick of Rangers defenseman Nick Holden.