Injury reports released across the Canadian web today, including this one, identify Blair Betts' injury, induced by known-menace Donald Brashear's hit to the head, in Sunday's Game 6 Rangers' loss to the NHL-favorited Washington Capitals, as a broken orbital bone.
We've seen players with broken orbital bones return in the past (like Todd Fedoruk's NHL return after having his face broken by Derek Boogaard) however these are long-shot returns because of the high degree of damage such an injury can entail. Sometimes they result in just cracked bone - requiring metal places to be screwed in to re-build the structure, while other times they could impede vision and effectively end the careers [such as the career of former North Stars forward Henry Boucha]
Only the surgeons and doctors surrounding Blair Betts in the next few weeks will be able to effectively forecast the realness of a professional ice hockey career for New York's most blue-collar of Blueshirts now.
Brashear's dirty career, already tainted with numerous other suspensions, will be over for the next 5 games due to this incident.
Betts' proud, hard-fought career might be over forever.
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