High School Hockey Player Suffers Graphic Injury During Celebration [VIDEO]
By: Evan Jankens
@kingofthekc
Hockey is a brutal sport, but there's a twist here because usually the brutality doesn't occur during a celebration.
During a Missouri State high school hockey championship game, Francis Howell North won the title and they celebrated with a big pileup on the goalie.
D.J. LaMartina was one of the last players to hop onto the pile and one of the more unfortunate situations happened.
LaMartina went to dive onto the pile and appeared to slip and caught a skate to the face.
https://vine.co/v/O0XEzHIwFjp
He suffered a major gash to both his chin and his upper lip, which you can see below.
Shout out to this beauty on a highschool state championship @DjLamartina celebrated a little too hard #gotaringthough pic.twitter.com/Q95FcC3lnv
— Hunter Cooley (@CooleyHunter) March 4, 2015
There's another one that's even more gnarly, so CLICK HERE if you can take it. (Ewwwww... you did it!)
LaMartina did tweet he was OK.
Note to the wise, maybe a pileup in hockey isn't the smartest choice when there are razor sharp skates in the mix! Luckily for him, all he got was a scar; Imagine if the skate had caught him in the neck.