Get ready to cringe. The other day during a Swedish preseason game, a referee lost his finger in the boards during play. It’s actually surprising this hasn’t happened more often in hockey considering all of the ways one could lose a finger on the ice.
The video below isn’t the most graphic, but knowing what happens might make this a bit NSFL.
Freak injury during a pre-season game in Sweden last night, linesman gets finger ripped off in the boards… 😨 pic.twitter.com/RbojuJ0HpH
— Robert Söderlind (@HockeyWebCast) August 17, 2016
The video shows a few angles of the incident but we get the point after the first one. Brutal.
https://twitter.com/HockeyWebCast/status/765982970071117824
In a sport that is all about the players, maybe we should start thinking about ref safety too, eh?
