Tampa Bay Lightning forward Steven Stamkos left his team’s game against the Boston Bruins on a stretcher with 7:11 remaining in the second period Monday at TD Garden.
Stamkos slid into the right post at the Lightning’s side of the ice after some contact with Bruins defenseman Dougie Hamilton, and the Tampa Bay star seemed to slam his right leg into the post.
Stamkos attempted to get up, but then fell back down and punched the ice several times with his right fist before he was attended to by medical personnel.
Fox Sports Florida reported that Stamkos was taken to a local hospital for X-rays.
Lightning defenseman Sami Salo was also taken to the dressing room with an apparent leg injur
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Coming from a Caps fan , I hope he's ok
You can read his lips. "Its broken"
Looks Like A Broken Tib/Fib…..
Looks a lot like Steve Yzerman's PCL knee injury back in the day
Damn man. Never wanna see an injury like that. Brutal
thanks for posting this O.O hopefully he'll be okay
Surprised that the Boston fans clapped. When Raymond had a spinal injury they started booing him.
It really didn't look like a bad play, its not like his knee buckled along the post…still hope he recovers quickly…
I don't think its career ending, pretty sure its just a broken leg. Hope he has a speedy and easy recovery.
Tibia break with surgery likely. Wow. I hope he can get back soon. Man oh man.
Broken Right Tibia
Pacrioetty, Raymond now Stamkos, keep walking the line Boston, don't bitch the day it comes back and bites you.
Oh man this is terrible.. I hope he'll be on ice again soon.
I'm surprised the Boston fans didn't chant "flopper" like they did when M. Raymond broke his back there several years ago..hope for a speedy recovery! #91
didn't really look THAT bad on the 1st slow motion @ 0.48 mark. worse on the overhead view @ 1:36 mark. hopefully it's just a "simple" tibia bone break NOT requiring surgery and he will be back in time for the Olympics or sooner. was tied for lead in points with Penguins Sidney Crosby @ 23 and Goals with Blues Alex Steen with 14. HUGE loss for the Lightning AND the NHL
Coming from a bruins fan, I hate to see this happen. But the bruins did not do anything to cause this injury. Stankos did not have very good body position and should not have fallen. He was leaning on dougie hamelton and douglie is definitly not the strongest bruin.
one tough cookie. props to him
I think his career might be over.
Dirty slew foot
I also had a broken tibia could not play the whole year month licking in hospital
Good news for Team USA! 🙂
he tried to get up and skate, it looked like him put some pressure on the leg. Did that make the injury worse?
It could have lee that's why if you get hurt you don't move!!!!!!
poor guy…looked like he was in a lot of pain.
hope he gets better soon!
Looks like he will play 1sf week of feb just in time to win team canada a gold medal 🙂
Leafs fan here.
Hope the man is doing okay.
Great fucking goal scorer I tell you H'what,
poor guy. this is why i love hockey. tough sport. I'd blow my head off if that was me. I admit I have no balls for this type of stuff.