September 8, 2024

Bruins

“Modeling profession defo in jeopardy however let’s simply say I used to be very very fortunate.”

Boston Bruins center Jakub Lauko during an NHL hockey game against the San Jose Sharks in San Jose, Calif., Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023.
Jakub Lauko stays in good spirits after taking a skate to the face on Tuesday. (AP Photograph/Jeff Chiu)

Talking on Thursday morning, Bruins head coach Jim Montgomery acknowledged that ahead Jakub Lauko was going to overlook a minimum of per week of motion after taking a skate blade to the face in opposition to Chicago earlier this week.

Upon seeing the precise injury doled out to the Bruins winger, it’s a powerful accomplishment in its personal proper that Lauko could possibly be again in simply seven days.

Simply three days after Blackhawks ahead Jason Dickinson inadvertently fileted a part of his face, Lauko shared a grisly replace on his situation Friday afternoon in a social media put up.

“Modeling profession defo in jeopardy however let’s simply say I used to be very very fortunate,” Lauko posted, showcasing his black eye and several other stitches going from the bridge of his nostril to the very fringe of his left eye. 

Montgomery additionally revealed on Thursday that Lauko is coping with a fracture on account of the play, standing as the first trigger for his anticipated week-long absence.

Lauko suffered the harm within the third interval of Tuesday’s 3-0 win over the Blackhawks, with Dickinson’s skate catching him whereas the Bruins winger was making an attempt to get again up from the ice following a battle alongside the boards.

Lauko shortly made his approach off the ice with a towel pressed in opposition to his face to cease the bleeding, however his eye averted any injury on the play.

As horrifying because the optics had been from his harm, Lauko has clearly not misplaced his humorousness within the wake of Tuesday’s incident. 

The afternoon after Boston’s win in Chicago, Lauko posted a photograph on social media evaluating himself to Gothmog, the unpleasant Orc basic from “The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King”.