Neal article

Here’s an article on James Neal’s injury from the Ottawa Citizen.

Moments after the stick hit his face and James Neal went down, he didn’t just look like a hockey player who was hurt.

He looked like a hockey player worried about being able to see again. Blood spilled quickly on the Zurich-Kloten Arena ice. Canadian players waved their arms to hurry training staff. Neal’s sudden bodily movements, the toss of his helmet and hands to the eye, communicated fear.

“For a while,” Canadian captain Shane Doan said, “he was probably as scared as he has ever been in his life.”

Later, after doctors at a local hospital had delicately sewn together a torn upper and lower eyelid, Neal came to realize the good and bad news.

Good: There was no damage to the eye itself. (A contact lens may have helped shield it from the stick blade).

Bad: He won’t play again at this world championship.

The rest of the story is here. 

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