"Palmieri got up, hobbled toward the Isles bench, but along the way the Philadelphia Flyers brought the puck back into their own zone. Palmieri, somehow with the wherewithal to keep his mind in the game through what was no doubt excruciating pain, stripped the puck from Flyers defenseman Emil Andrae, passed it off and got an assist on the ensuing goal."
"In that moment, Palmieri exemplified one of the big reasons we love hockey: that natural toughness, stubborn unwillingness to give up in the face of adversity. We have a running hockey inside joke where we laugh, often bewildered, at the laundry list of injuries that come to light after a team gets eliminated from the playoffs. Like in 2020, when Steven Stamkos came back from a lengthy injury for only two minutes and 47 seconds and scored on his first possession?"
Veteran forward Kyle Palmieri tore his ACL while chasing a puck in the offensive zone, crumbled to the ice in visible pain, then got up and hobbled toward the bench. As the play continued, Palmieri stripped the puck from Flyers defenseman Emil Andrae, passed it off and recorded an assist before being helped off the ice to the locker room. Palmieri will be out six to eight months. The sequence exemplifies hockey toughness and stubborn unwillingness to give up despite severe injury. Comparable moments include Steven Stamkos in 2020, Zdeno Chara in 2019, and Joe Thornton in 2017.
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