Last night Evander Kane of the Edmonton Oilers becomes the latest hockey player to be seriously injured by a skate cut.
I won’t repost the video of the incident, but here’s what happened:
Kane gets tangled up with an opponent and is slew-footed to the ice
A second opponent skates into the pile to recover the puck and accidentally steps on Kane’s forearm
The…
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