Hockey Guy Of The Century Morgan Barron Returned To The Game After Taking A Skate To The Face And Receiving 75 Stitches
There are baseball players who have missed half a season before because they sneezed too hard and hurt their back. There are basketball players who sit out of games because they jammed their finger. There are football players who don't return to games because their brains got smattered into a million pieces.
Hockey players are built different. Hockey players are all a bunch of sick bastards. And unless you are literally dead, there's nothing that is going to stop a hockey player from finishing a game. And even then, they might just come back for a few shifts Walking Dead style. But Winnipeg Jets forward Morgan Barron is just the latest in a long line of hockey players who have shown who tough these sons of bitches are after he took a skate to the face, got pieced back together with 75 stitches, and came right back out the moment that final stitch was cut.
I need to reiterate this just so everyone at home doesn't think this is a bit. He took a goddamn skate to the face. He basically got kicked in the face by a boot that has a knife attached to it. The fact that he still has two functioning eyes is nothing short of a miracle. Think he gives a shit about his eye, though? Not a goddamn chance. Morgan Barron is a hockey player, and all he cared about was whether or not the boys scored a goal.
Handsome son of a gun, too. Some guys have it all.
That's what the Stanley Cup Playoffs is all about. You've got a bunch of dogs out there who have all been dreaming about winning the Cup since the first time they laced up a pair of hockey skates. Now they're all just 16 wins away from making that dream a reality, but they're also just 4 quick losses away from their season coming to an end. They'll do whatever it takes to get those 16 wins. If that means you have to get half your face carved off your skull going hard to the net, then that's a small price to pay to get your name etched onto the Cup for the rest of eternity. What a beauty.
P.S. -- Winnipeg won 5-1. Those poor, poor Vegas Golden Knights are about to get bounced out of the first round while being like $15 million over the salary cap. Losers.