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Eric Staal Injured In World Championship Game

05/16/2013 at 2:53pm EDT

Staal had to be helped off the ice and put no weight on his right leg after a knee-on-knee hit from Alex Edler in the first period of Canada/Sweden WC game today.

Edler received a major and a game misconduct.

added 3:05pm, thanks to CBSEyeOnHockey, watch the video below...

added 3:23pm, the video has been removed, hopefully the IIHF will have it up soon.

added 3:28pm, you can watch the hit at TSN.

added 6:17pm, the IIHF released video of the game, at the 15 second mark you can view the Staal incident...

added 8:36pm, a second video has been added below, one with better replays.

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