Bruins Coach Takes Puck To Skull Returns To Bench After Getting Stapled Up

Bruins assistant coach Doug Houda played 561 games over his NHL career, and while he got hit in the face from time to time, he was usually prepared to take a beating. On Wednesday night, a puck went flying into the Boston bench and cracked Houda in the skull, forcing him to go to the locker room to get staples put in his skull.

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But Houda’s a hockey player at heart, so he got stapled up and returned to the bench.