It’s amazing that this doesn’t happen more often. During Penguins-Sharks over the weekend, NBC’s between the glass analyst Brian Engblom caught a puck square to the forehead when it got redirected off Sidney Crosby’s stick.  Engblom was rushed away from the bench area with a towel covering his face, then returned a few moments later after getting stitched up.  Because he’s a former hockey player.  And hockey players are insane creatures.

How many other gigs in television have the opportunity to get hit in the face by a flying projectile and gush buckets of blood all in the job description?  Al Roker isn’t getting rushed off The Today Show set after being hit by a flying wine glass from Kathie Lee and Hoda… well, at least that hasn’t happened yet.

[Pro Hockey Talk]

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