via Wes Gilbertson of the Calgary Herald...
with Versteeg gasping for air as he retreated to the visitors’ locker-room. “I thought it went pretty well until I got in that car accident there,” Versteeg said with a grin. “That’s definitely, I would say, up there with the hardest I’ve ever been hit. When you can’t breathe for a minute, it’s pretty scary.” For Brouwer, the scary part was the thought that Versteeg might be headed back to the injured list. “When you see you’re going to hit your own player, all you try to do is make it as soft as possible,” Brouwer said.
via Mike Chambers of the Denver Post,
The game got chippy late in the second period, leading to four combined power plays. Edmonton forward Matthew Benning delivered a low, neutral-zone hit that appeared to injure MacKinnon and teammate Joe Colborne confronted Benning, but Colborne was given the extra minor.
Watch the hit below...
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