My worst hockey injury was actually seemingly the most innocent. A guy was skating by me and accidentally jammed the toe of his stick into the palm of my hand. Freak accident but he broke my trapezium (joint at the bottom of your thumb right at the wrist — think your thumb pad) and I’ve had pain in my carpometacarpal joint ever since. This happened when I was like 14 and a few years later I’d already developed arthritis in the joint. 20+ years later it still affects my grip strength and it’s frequently painful and the swelling never went down. I don’t take slap shots any more because the impact aggravates it and it’ll be sore for days afterwards. The doc said I could maybe get surgery if it gets worse but most likely it’s just something I’ll have to continue living with.
Worst injury I’ve ever seen in hockey was when a dude skating towards the bench for a line change lost an edge and went into the boards feet first. His right ankle shattered and dislocated and his foot was pointing in the wrong direction. After that I never skated directly forwards the bench, always at an angle.
Worst overall sports injury for me was a compound fracture and dislocation of my finger playing another sport. Pretty gnarly seeing your own bone. Every time my heart beat blood would squirt out… made one of my teammates faint. I’ve always had a pretty high tolerance for pain but I was shocked at how little it hurt. I actually played for another minute or two before realizing my finger didn’t feel right and when I took off my glove my bone was staring at me. Didn’t hurt at all until a few hours later when the doctors were f***ing with it and I told them if they touched it again without me being sedated I’d punch them with my good hand. They injected me with a shit ton of Dilaudid (5x the strength of morphine) before surgery and I was on cloud 9 after that.
Worst injury I’ve ever seen in hockey was when a dude skating towards the bench for a line change lost an edge and went into the boards feet first. His right ankle shattered and dislocated and his foot was pointing in the wrong direction. After that I never skated directly forwards the bench, always at an angle.
Worst overall sports injury for me was a compound fracture and dislocation of my finger playing another sport. Pretty gnarly seeing your own bone. Every time my heart beat blood would squirt out… made one of my teammates faint. I’ve always had a pretty high tolerance for pain but I was shocked at how little it hurt. I actually played for another minute or two before realizing my finger didn’t feel right and when I took off my glove my bone was staring at me. Didn’t hurt at all until a few hours later when the doctors were f***ing with it and I told them if they touched it again without me being sedated I’d punch them with my good hand. They injected me with a shit ton of Dilaudid (5x the strength of morphine) before surgery and I was on cloud 9 after that.