Somewhere around the time Joel Armia was stealing the puck from the Carolina Hurricanes for the fourth time in one shift Thursday in Winnipeg, Evander Kane was arriving at a hospital in Buffalo.
By night’s end, Armia had authored the rarest of YouTube hockey highlights — a forecheck — and Kane had been diagnosed with cracked ribs which will have him out of the Buffalo Sabres lineup for what the NHL team said Friday will be "weeks," at least.