The Rangers didn’t do a lot harm throughout their lopsided loss in Buffalo Saturday, as they opened their last stretch of the season with an embarrassing defeat.
About the one ache they managed to inflict was to Buffalo broadcaster — and ex-Sabres enforcer — Rob Ray, who obtained hit within the head with an errant puck from Rangers defenseman Will Borgen.
The incident occurred late within the first interval after the Sabres took a fast 4-0 lead and the Rangers received the following faceoff.
Borgen tried to ship the puck to the opposite finish of the ice, nevertheless it deflected off the ice and drilled Ray, who was stationed between the benches.
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Ray instantly yelled “Ah, f–k,” however didn’t let it cease him from describing the motion on the ice, as he was rapidly checked out by Sabres medical doctors from the place he was broadcasting.
He ended up with a reduce above his eye and continued to broadcast earlier than finally getting stitches later within the recreation.
Whereas talking to broadcast associate Dan Dunleavy, Ray pointed to the proof left by the puck above his eyebrow, “Right where the golf ball is right here. That’s not normal.”
The 56-year-old Ray, who was inducted into the Sabres’ Corridor of Fame final month, spent most of his 15-year NHL profession in Buffalo and remains to be the all-time chief in penalty minutes for the franchise, so the toughness displayed Saturday was not sudden.
It’s additionally not the primary time Ray has performed — or broadcast — via an damage.
Simply over a 12 months in the past, Ray took one other errant puck to the pinnacle throughout a Sabres recreation in opposition to the Arizona Coyotes — now the Utah Hockey Workforce.
