BREAKING: Blackhawk Endures Nasty Bloody Injury and Receives 50 to 100 Stitches

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Sam Walker
December 12, 2022 (5:33 PM)

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Chicago Blackhawks Jared Tinordi is one of the very many Hawks players with terrible injury luck this season, Tinordi was a last-second surprising addition to the teams' lineup on Friday when they announced he is cleared to play just moments before puck drop.

Just seconds into his very first shift back after being out quite some time due to an injury, Tinordi had a very scary situation break out. The Blackhawks defensemen left the ice immediately and many were worried due to there being no reporting of why he exited the game so early, and missed the entire first period.

Footage was rolled back and it was discovered that Tinordi took a skate to the face, slicing him ''wide open, his jaw was cut wide open'', Said Hawks head coach Luke Richardson.

Tinordi spoke about the incident to NBC Sports Chicago reporters, and it was unpleasant to say the least:

In the moment, I obviously felt something hit my jaw but I thought it was just the boot or his ankle or something like that," Tinordi told NBC Sports Chicago. "You don't feel the pain from it, you don't feel anything, it just felt like something hit my jaw and I wasn't sure.

"I double-checked, and the first time I touched it there was just a little bit of blood. The second time I touched it, it was quite a bit. I knew it was not great but you don't know how bad it was. I didn't even look at it, I just went right to the training table. Even then, you think it's just a couple stitches and you'll be back. But it turned out to be a little more than that.

Blackhawks Luke Richardson wasn't even aware of the injury due to how quickly it happened, but he stated the following to NBC Sports Chicago reporters:

"I thought he got the puck in the face, but I guess he got to skate in the face," Richardson said. "And he was open wide, wide open there on the bottom, right across the chin. It took extensive time to sew him back up.

"I guess he was getting impatient with the doctors. They kept telling him five minutes, five minutes and they kept having to go more and more. I don't think they thought it was as severe at first, and he didn't think it was either. It was kind of a slice so it probably just went numb right away and then he realized it was a little deeper, a little bit bigger'', Said Luke Richardson

Fortunetly enough for Tinordi he got stitched up and played the second period, and rest of the game, but also lost part of his beard throughout the process!

Via NBC Sports Charlie Roumeliotis:

''In order to get stitched up, the doctors had to trim Tinordi's beard, which was pretty thick. Some of his teammates joked that they saw beard hairs on the ice throughout the game.''