An NHL referee miraculously escaped critical harm when he copped an unintentional stick with the top, inflicting the sport seven of the Stanley Cup fit between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Florida Panthers to come back to a halt.
During Monday’s pivotal recreation in the second one spherical of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, referee Chris Rooney suffered a major lower above his eye, when he took an inadvertent top stick with the face from Panthers participant Niko Mikkola.
Rooney fell to the ice as blood gushed onto the taking part in floor, forcing play to forestall for a number of mins.
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The second Rooney copped a stick within the face. TNT
Chris Rooney will likely be to be had to officiate the following spherical. TNT
Rooney was once sooner or later helped off the ice and gained stitches and didn’t go back to the sport.
According to The Athletic, Rooney had a black eye the morning after, however didn’t undergo any eye harm. He hopes to be again later this spherical.
The fit ended with Florida taking it 6-1.
Seth Jones, Anton Lundell and Jonah Gadjovich scored in a second-period burst and Eetu Luostarinen, Sam Reinhart and Brad Marchand — into an empty internet — added targets within the 3rd. Marchand, Luostarinen and Aleksander Barkov every had two assists.
The protecting Stanley Cup champion Panthers will play the Carolina Hurricanes within the convention ultimate.