Canada's Blayre Turnbull Got Injured While Celebrating Winning The World Championships, Still Got Back On The Ice On A Stretcher For The Gold Medal Ceremony
Derek Leung. Getty Images.You want to talk about hockey tough? You want to talk about some sick individuals who are for the squad above any and everything else? Well look no further than Canadian forward Blayre Turnbull.
Hockey Canada beat Team USA in overtime of the IIHF World Championship Gold Medal Game last night. Tough break for the Americans but they had won the previous 5 tournaments, and 8 out of the last 10. So now they'll have some extra motivation heading in to 2022.
But for the Canadian squad, they had 6 long years to wait for this celebration. And to draw out the anticipation even more, they had to wait almost a full minute after Marie-Philip Poulin scored the game winner in overtime and the video room upstairs finally realized that puck went in the back of the net. But like any elite goal scorer, Poulin knew the moment it left her stick.
Big time 2010 Patty Kane vibes there. Nobody else in the arena really knowing what's going on but scorers always know when they've added another to their total. Dirty, dirty snipe.
But anyways, you might have seen a player getting dragged out from underneath the dogpile celebration. You can see about 10 seconds into this video, she comes out from the bottom of the dogpile and then she starts to get brought over to the bench right before the video cuts out.
Now I'm no doctor, but that leg looked pretty limp to me. And I'm a little bit better at being a lip reader than I am as being a medical practitioner, so I think I'll just go with Blayre Turnbull's self-diagnosis here.
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"My ankle really snapped".
So here we have a broken ankle after taking the weight of the entire team on her leg, and do you think for one moment that Blayre Turnbull is heading to the hospital? Do you think she's getting rushed out of there and missing the medal ceremony? Do you think she's not going to be out there with the girls?
For sure not.
Because she's a hockey player. And a broken ankle is a helluva long way from the heart. What a legend. What a moment.