Alexeyev was inserted into the Capitals' lineup for Game 1 due to his former Hershey Bears defense partner, Martin Fehervary, being out injured with a lower-body ailment.
I've gone outside the front and no longer than maybe a minute or two later a car stops in the road around 12 or 15 metres away. I felt like the headlights were illuminating me and as I looked at the car I have been caught in the face with what we believe to be a catapult. It resulted in my top five teeth completely shattering and my bottom four being smashed to bits.
"So, I got hit in the face, but they were temporary and I was supposed to go in by like two weeks ago, but I kept pushing it off to get like my permanent ones⦠Luckily they were like right there and I picked them up."