Breaking: NHL veteran goes down with a knee injury, then takes a slap shot to the head.

NHL veteran gets beat up bad on this play.

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Breaking: NHL veteran goes down with a knee injury, then takes a slap shot to the head.

Man you have got to feel bad for poor Kris Versteeg on this play. 

Not only did the National Hockey League veteran suffer what looks like based on his reaction to be a fairly serious knee or leg injury, but he was then drilled in the head by a bomb of a slap shot from the blue line. 

Versrteeg went down immediately at the face off, and while the Caroline Hurricanes had every right to continue playing the puck despite his injury, the fact that Jeff Skinner drilled a shot into the skill of the downed Flames veteran was a little unsportsmanlike. 

We're sure Skinner didn't intentionally nail Versteeg in the head, but the optics of the play aren't great.

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