Victor Mete goes head first into the boards after battle with Milan Lucic.

Oh boy this one looks really bad. 

On Sunday afternoon the Montreal Canadiens were facing off against the Edmonton Oilers at the Bell Center in Montreal Quebec in an early game likely bumped up due to the National Football League's Superbowl later today. The game itself has been pretty back and forth with the Oilers leading by a score of 3 - 2 after the first two periods of play, but all the focus thus far has been on an incident that took place in the opening minutes of the game. 

Montreal Canadiens defenseman Victor Mete and Edmonton Oilers power forward Milan Lucic were engaged in a hard fought battle for the puck less than 3 minutes into the game, and it was that battle that would lead to an awful looking incident. As Mete and Lucic battled the young Canadiens' defenseman was unsurprisingly out muscled by the big bruising Oilers' forward and that resulted in Lucic shrugging him off like it was nothing. Although the display of power for Lucic was an impressive one it was also real bad news for Mete.

The Habs blue liner would lose his balance as Lucic bumped him off his body and without that balance and while falling at an awkward position Mete was helpless to defend himself. The result was him diving what looked like head first into the end boards, although he may have been able to get his arm up in the way on time to defend himself. Nonetheless Mete was clearly rattled after going into the boards and it could have been much worse if Lucic had followed through on the bump he delivered to Mete. As the Habs trainers came out to check on the status of the young defender he could be seen writhing around on the ice in pain, which was believe or not a very good sign. 

Given the way that Mete went head first into the boards no one would have been surprised if he had suffered some kind of head, neck, or perhaps even a spinal injury so seeing him move on the ice, even if it was in discomfort, was a good sign that he hadn't suffered too much damage.

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