A look at the brutal hit that knocked Ryan Smyth out cold last night.

Beloved former National Hockey League forward Ryan Smyth was knocked out cold last night during a AAA senior game, and there has been considerable outrage on social media regarding the hit.

Smyth took an illegal elbow to the head from forward Kyle Sheen roughly midway through the third period of the match up between Smyth's Stony Plain Eagles and Sheen's Lacombe Generals.

While there were calls for a suspension against Sheen from the Eagles, who claim Sheen had targeted Smyth in the past, that outrage is likely to build to a fever pitch once the video of the hit begins to make the rounds.

As you can see below, this one was pretty ugly.

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