Hockey is known for players playing through some of the most debilitating injuries. And the other night, Kyle Palmieri showed that even if your season is over, you still can make magic happen on your final shift of the year. So, let’s talk about one of the greatest assists I’ve ever seen, and why it is so special that Kyle Palmieri changed the entire momentum of this game despite tearing his ACL.
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I went down with a knee injury very similar to that play. Got my skate caught under me. I have never been the same since. You know it’s bad when your skate boot hits your arse. It was 3 years ago and it’s not the same.
Dude is probably hoping he just has a job next year at this point. But if that was his last play ever, he's going out with honor and balls of steel. Here's hoping he gets one more season as a healthy player
Sick vid Earboy💜
Spencer Lee: ACL’s? Don’t need em…. Still competing for the olympics.
You made a masterpiece about a regulare season game check
This is the heart the Devils lack. Should have NEVER gotten rid of him.
Amazing.
He was in tremendous pain, but in that moment, he knew he was a badass.
It was a bullshit play everyone thought he was out of the play and sneaks up on my flyers and steals the puck I know they think it was awesome but I don’t at all was a bullshit play
As a caps fan with all the amazing ovi shit I’ve seen over the years, this might be the single best hockey play I’ve ever seen. It’s still fuck the isle tho❤
I honestly find it easier to hit a moving target in any sport rather than a stationary one. Not that the backhand isnt impressive but I'd reckon if the skills competition were done while in motion the players might do a little better.
Couldn’t of said it better myself
(Even as a flyers fan)
Yes, he got up to go to the bench instead of just laying there. He also decided to pick up his stick along the way, which made this play possible.
I’m prepared for this to keep the Sabres out of the playoffs by one point.
My parents always said unless you can’t move, get off the ice
Some may even say, that its a play he probably shouldn't have made in the first place. But the fact that he did is an exceptional display of discipline and the exact kind of drive that it takes to make it in the league.
The guy he stick lifted was put on waivers the following day 😂
Thats HOCKEY❤
Hate to be a party pooper but how was he not offsides?
One of the greatest assists of all time!
Solid gold
Too many men lol
As a Rangers fan, I hated Palmeri, but it always sucks to see a player go out like that. Hopefully he’s back on the ice next season and retires on his own terms
Well written and produced YT short. Keep it up!
“Hold my doctor’s note.”
Great video. I’ve met Kyle before he’s a family friend he’s an outstanding guy! Never knew he had grit in him like that!!
I tore my acl when a guy who outweighed me by 40lbs at least, on my left knee as we battled for the puck in our corner middle of the second. (Long skate).
So he falls on me, and on the way down I hear "pop" like someone snapped their fingers and my left knee, the front, back, sides, the cap all of it instantly numb.
Buddy looks at me weird and puts his gloves into my chest and ribs and pushes up off me and I watch his numbers start chasing the play back down ice, so I instinctively started to get back on my skates and the second I moved my leg,. MAN!! The pain is seriously in the 8.3/9 range on a 10 scale.
The only pain I have ever felt that hurt more than either my acl or my mcl, bc yes this idiot here has torn both, is the time I got gasoline in my ear canal and it made contact with my inner ear drum.
Gasoline.
In my ear.
Gas. In my fk'n ear!
Anyway
I skated in intense pain to the far bench as the play continued . No, I have no hero's tale scoring any points as I completed the line change, I just sat on the bench, looked at my D partner, and said something about thinking I mighta really Fk'd my knee up. Told him I was gonna see if I could skate it off on the next face-off back down in our far end of the ice.
It hurt to just stand up off the bench, the tendons and ligaments roared with fire trying to push off with my right leg, then quickly seared up my thigh and deep into the front my hip socket for a split second as I transferred weight to my injured leg to glide and use my good leg to push.
Trying to get off the ice and back on the bench again to undoubtedly head to the hospital, proved twice as hard and much more painful than the first time. Trying to lift my skate over that small yellow dasher and set down on rubber mat almost brought me to tears.
I drove myself to the hospital in my…get this..my 1972 Econoline, 289 straight six, 3 in the tree Ford van. Think Scoobs Mystery Machine. It was short, green, and even had flowers on it. But no power steering, no power brakes, and 3 in the tree means it's a 3 speed manual transmission, so pushing the clutch in with my left leg was necessary, I didn't have health insurance at the time, I was broke so I was driving not able to afford the Wahhmbulance. Plus! I'm a HOCKEY PLAYER!!
So Doc does his thing, pokes and prods and then puts his arm in the crook of my knee, the bend. Bends my knee over his arm and tugs back with a bit of force.
OOOUUCHH!! You stupid mf asswipe!! What are you doing?? That hurts!! I'm gonna hurt you back man!! I'm telling you!!.
So blah blah xmrirays and sure enough torn acl. Explains everything, saying I should probably take about 3 months off work and then asks "BTW, what do you do for work? "
Me: "I'm a flooring installer. Ceramic, Carpet, vct, lvp. Doing it 25 years, if it goes on the floor I've probably put it there."
Doc: 😮.
"You need to take at least 8 months off work. You can grab this script at the hospital pharmacy and you can have this knee brace until we get your fitted one put together. "
Got my script, and brace, drove home, better with the brace. I took 3 days off work and started a 130 yard, residential carpet install on day 4 with my brace holding my leg straight back the whole time. Week 3 the brace was sitting in the van amongst flooring tools and I was still working jobs. In unfathomable pain mind you, but like I said earlier…I was broke, no insurance and couldn't afford not to work.
Honestly top contender in the pain game.
You can only understand why he kept going is because he’s a hockey player. Most players won’t lay on the ice unless it’s a major head wound. You’re expected to get up
Fuck the Islanders and fuck Kyle Palmieri. Stop with this video that sucks the dick of a guy that isnt that good and Im a Devils fan. Personally never thought that much of the guy. Never saw what was supposed to be so great and the guy gave up on a team I guarantee he wishes he was still on. Next time maybe you can play the clip in EVEN SLOWER MOTION!!! Hahahaha, BEST ASSISTS EVER!!!! LMFAO 😂😂😂 bringing the skills competition into it. Are you this in love with KYLE!!!! LETS GO DEVILS AND YEAH THAT 1 POINT WILL BE TRACKED BACK TO THIS MOMENT, OH SHIT THIS HAS TO BE THE FUNNIEST AND MOST COPIUM VIDEO COMMENNTARY I'VE EVER HEARD, ISLANDERS SUCK!! LETS GO DEVILS!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
lowkey muscle memory def kicked in
Just remember that, even if it is palmier’s last time on the ice know that it was an assist his last touch on the puck was an assist
This right here is the difference between Hockey players and the rest of the major sporting world
Getting an assist after just getting up from tearing your ACL is the most hockey thing I’ve seen since Zuccarello committing a legal felony last night.
No doubt. As a Pavel Bure fan, I can tell you it’s a devastating injury that you can never fully recover from. Poor guy ended up with five different knee surgeries and only managed to play just over 700 games and easily the most electrifying goal scorer we’ve ever seen in the NHL. The closest we’ve got to it is Connor McDavid, only Pavel had better finish than even Davo. Don’t get me wrong. Connor is definitely a better player overall no doubt whatsoever but Pavel was an even greater goal scorer who would do the same kind of things every night and score even more often when you weren’t allowed two line passes and hooking and holding were a brutal part of the game. And he still scored at an incredible pace, even in the neutral zone trap, dead scoring era of the NHL. ACL injuries are just brutal and my sympathy goes out to every athlete that has to deal with them.
Legends never die
Ok …as a Flyers fan of 50 years …mad respect for that! More so …as a player who blew out his ACL in a game…I asked the linesmen to help me to the bench so my teammates didn't see me crying!😉 It is…brutal! When you watch your knee go in a direction it was never intended too….far!
I got back to locker room and started stripping off gear. Got just my skates off and…by then .. adrenaline and endorphins were pumping. Stood up and thought….maybe it's not too bad. We were already short a Damn and ..I was the 1D who ran PP and PK. Was a big game. So, walked out to bench and ya have to take a pretty big step up onto the bench. Well, my knee buckled under me and I went down like Frazier! That's….when I knew….I needed a ride to the hospital.
ACL graft done by one of the best!!! Evan Ledderman of TOCA in Phoenix. He worked on pros so…good enough for me lol. Said at 36yrs old … looking at an 18 month rehab before even back on skates. I was back in 13 months, playing in 15.
7 months later, tore labrum in other shoulder. Another miniscus repair on other knee and L5-S1 blown down repair … hung them up at 39 yrs old. Literally… They are hanging on a wall with last stick I played with and a picture of the last youth team I coached. All the trophies….in a box in the attic. Too hard to look at.
56 yrs old, 8 surgeries later from the game and my first heart attack 7 weeks ago (minor)…. I miss playing this damn game every single day! Miss coaching youth hockey. The older I get …the better I was. 😉
These pros…sure, they make a lot of money. But…they have sacrificed their bodies to the Gods of Hockey. No such thing as a retired player in perfect health without chronic pain. They are modern day gladiators! Same for most pro athletes but Hockey….there's something special about hockey players. They are a different breed. Hell… everyone is born knowing how to run and jump. Try ANYTHING….on skates. Then ..with a 230lbs 6'2" farm raised and fed farm boy from Canada letting you know…what happens when you dare to enter his zone. There is nothing else like it.
And…I would do it all over again…. without a second thought!
It's the greatest game, team sport with the best athletes in the world!
How can you NOT be romantic…about hockey? 😉😀
Let's go Flyers!!!
I torn my ACL
Honestly…. It's not that crazy tearing an ACL. I tore my left knee ACL twice both skiing. Both times I kept working out in preparation for surgery and PT. Hell, the second time I knew I did it. The pain is immediate and then goes away in a few minutes. Besides some instability, you're kind of questioning what happened. I finished out the day on the slopes with what felt like a rounded out bolt with a socket on my knee. That was 15 years ago. I still play hockey year round weekly on that repaired knee.
Reminds me of Gregory Campbell, Bruins, broken leg and finishing his shift.
Passing to a player, then passing to a small net is a lot different cause. The player usually grabs the puck themselves with their stick
being there in person and watching it live was something else!
I had this injury last year playing soccer as many others have. The pain is so sharp and debilitating it’s hard to believe he even skated off using both legs like that. Play of the year.
Hes got one more year left in his contract, id love to cheer him back onto the ice !
Tore mine when I was 19 playing hockey and your right emotional and physical pain instantly both hit you . A few days later you dint really believe that your ACL is gone until you try to walk down stairs at night when it’s dark and you can’t figure it out. So you take up cycling prior to surgery to keep strong , then you fall in love with that sport , and then you get it fixed and for one week after surgery you go from riding for two hours to your mind can’t seem to make the connection on a stationary bike being watched by a physiotherapist to make one revolution so you do have revolutions back and forth for a week. Then one day some part of your brain makes the connection and your legs goes around once and then twice and three times and you don’t want to stop . Six month later you compete in your first ever cycling race and love it then you try surfing and snowboarding and skating again, it’s all good but it never feels right again . 41 years later arthritis sets in but you keep going ! Why?
because hockey taught you something about yourself !
He will return to the game next season and will endure the same things and will have professional recovery trainers only he will know it’s not the same as it was and he won’t complain . For the love of the game ❤
He could make a stop in Canada. The government has a program called M.A.I.D. that can offer him some relief.
I wonder how soccer and basketball fans/players react to this?
Broke my knee playin. Got ny skate caught and played 3rd period. Next game, did it again.. Never played again