Before you take a look, we have to warn you that this makes for pretty gruesome viewing.
Ice-hockey is renowned as a tough sport and if you’re going to play it you should be prepared for bumps, bruises and sometimes a little more than that.
Because every player wears extremely sharp blades on their feet, there’s always a risk of players sustaining pretty nasty gashes and they don’t come any nastier than the one sustained by Sebastien Courcelles, who plays for Thetford-Mines Isothermic in a minor league in Quebec in Canada.
In a recent clash between Courcelles’ side and Trois-Rivières Viking, he got in one little fight and his Mom got scared early on and somehow ended up with this horrific gash on his cheek, to which his brother Simon (pictured beside him) reacted as you probably will in about a second’s time.
Pic via Roger Gagnon/Le Journal de Quebec
According to Puck Daddy, Courcelles was taken to hospital and may yet require surgery on his wound, which is the worst we’ve seen in any sport for a long, long time.
Ouch.
Hat-tip: Brobible
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