Drew Miller gives terrifying description of his eye injury.

Many people saw the result of Drew Miller's injury last night, but his description of the incident makes it even more chilling.

“When it happened, my first reaction was, ‘Oh my God, my eye is gone. Right away you think, ‘Man I lost my eye and my hockey career is over and my life is going to be totally different with losing an eye,’” said Miller via the Red Wings official webstite.

It's hard to imagine the powerful emotions Miller must have experienced first believing he had lost his eye, and then realizing he was going to be relatively fine by comparison.

“It hit so hard … there was so much blood that I wasn’t sure if it had clipped my eyeball or what had happened. I wasn’t sure.”

However to Miller's credit he might be one of the toughest men on the planet, not only did he state his intention to return to action Thursday night against the Bruins, but apparently Miller attempted to get back on the ice for the third period after getting stitched up..

“Yeah I wanted to come back for the third,” he said. “It took a while to get stitched up. I was back there for a while but the doctors – and my wife – came to the conclusion that I probably shouldn’t go back out just for the sake of not ripping the stitches."

Thankfully things turned out well for everyone involved, and when speaking to the media today Miller's face looked much improved.