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Coached my first ADM practice last night after having spent years in high school and college club. I had occasionally been hit with a puck or took a spill before but nothing serious. I was manning the passing station and i was bent down trying to show this tiny kid something and he out of the blue lost his balance. Before i could react his stick comes up and hits me right above the eye. Hard. Didnt bleed at first so I try to play it off and go back to coaching him. The kid cant even focus on the puck now, all i see are these wide eyes through his cage staring at me. Now i am bleeding and trying to wipe it off and eventually we switched groups. Got the bleeding to stop and finished. But literally anouther 1/8” or 1/4” and it would have been my eye. Just a reminder to be careful!

Seen this but the stick hit him in the mouth, 4 teeth gone. I always coach with a hybrid these days, its just not worth the hassle to be dealing with dental etc because of some shitty flukey accident. I don't care what it looks like anymore, been able to eat my breakfast tomorrow morning properly is more important to me than getting chirped by some dickhead on the ice.