Jesper Fast is busted open after face planting on to the ice.

That can't feel good.

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Jesper Fast is busted open after face planting on to the ice.

You have to hope that New York Rangers veteran Jesper Fast will not need any dental work after this one.

The Rangers faced off against the Florida Panthers on Friday night in a battle of two teams that were each coming off a loss and both teams showed up with some decent intensity during the contests opening period. Each team managed to get two pucks past the opposing goaltender and it seemed like that would be the story line headed into the first intermission, but in the dying seconds of the period something else happened. 

In what has to be one of the most awkward sequences to lead to an injury this season both 26 year old New York Rangers winger Jesper Fast as well as 23 year old Florida Panthers star center Aleksander Barkov got tangled up as they were in a race for the puck, and that quickly resulted in both men falling to the ice awkwardly. It looked as if Fast got his stick around the body of Barkov and that resulted in the young Panthers' center losing his footing on the ice, causing him to be the first to fall awkwardly.

Unfortunately for Fast however his sloppy stick work resulted in Barkov's body falling on his piece of lumber and that resulted in Fast himself getting dragged down to the ice in a much worse position. To his credit Fast apparently had an iron grip on his stick at the time because the sudden weight of Barkov falling on the stick not only dragged the stick down to the ice, but it caused Fast to stumble forward and slam his face into the ice as well. It was one of the most ungraceful falls to the ice you're going to see in professional hockey and it honestly made it look like Fast was simply face planting into the ice, obviously not a good sign for the integrity of his face.

Fast was obviously shaken up on the play and consider both the force and the angle of the impact I can hardly blame him. He remained down on all fours for a very long time before eventually regaining his feet and heading to the Rangers bench where it became readily apparent that he had been busted open pretty good. 

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