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Dan Girardi Recalls Taking A Martin Frk Shot To The Back Of His Neck

07/23/2018 at 10:57am EDT

from Dan Girardi at TampaBayLightning.com,

"That guy's got a laser beam of a shot, and that's why he's there on the power play. I'm almost positive the time before we played Detroit, it was at home and I got hit in the side of the leg or the hip off a shot by Frk and it hurt through the pants. I was like, 'Wow, that's a hard shot,' you know what I mean?

Going into the penalty kill pre-scout, the coaches were like, 'Frk's going to be setting up over there, and that's the right D's guy.' I'm like, 'Alright, I've got him. I've got to do that, take care of that.' That's pretty standard for a right defenseman with a right-handed guy, one-timer over there....

When I got hit, I didn't really know what was wrong. It was like I couldn't even talk or say anything. It was such a weird feeling that I've never had before. I didn't lose consciousness at all. When it hit me, tingles shot down my right arm, so obviously it hit me in the back of the neck on the right side. Like, it kind of went numb for a second. When I went back and watched the replay, my right hand was moving and doing some weird dance on the ice because I think I just didn't know what to do because it hurt a lot and then it was tingly and I was kind of nervous not knowing if something was really bad.

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