NHL player suffers gruesome injury in freak accident (VIDEO)

Martin Havlat was the victim of one of the strangest injuries in a game against the Washington Capitals. He gets ridden hard into the boards by Caps’ forward Jason Chimera, and appears to clip a referee on his way to the ice. Havlat was left a bloody mess, with his upper lip basically hanging on by a thread. This is a very graphic injury, hope you have a strong stomach. And this is Havlat's face after 55 stiches:

Devils F Martin Havlat is joking about his face: "At least I don´t need any mask for Halloween..." pic.twitter.com/cVBzazChR8 — Zdenek Janda (@zdenek_janda) October 20, 2014