Salvador appears to be OK

Devils defenseman Bryce Salvador had a welt on his left cheek, cuts on the left side of his nose, bridge of his nose and outside the corner of his left eye, but otherwise seemed to be fine after tonight's 4-1 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Salvador was awaiting results of X-rays, though.

Salvador said he was not worried about his left eye after he was hit.

"It's not the first time I've been hit in the face and quite honestly I kind of just train myself to overanalyze anything because you don't know," he said. "So, I always think the most important thing is go get off the ice and there's great doctors nowadays, so it can never really be that bad because there's a great medical staff here."

Salvador was struck in the face with a shot from Pittsburgh's Alex Goligoski with 2:13 remaining in the game. The biggest cut was the one on the left side of his nose, which required stitches to close, but he claimed not to know how many.

"Actually I don't even know," he said. "Maybe 10 or something. I don't know. I try not to hear (how many)"

When asked how he felt, he said, "I feel great. We won." 

Salvador wouldn't say if he was in pain.

 

"I feel it," he said. "It's nothing I'm not used to."

Salvador's multiple cuts indicated that puck struck him in multiple places.

"It flipped. It hit me here, here and also on the outside too," Salvador said pointing to the cuts on his face. "I just better get a blocked shot for that. That's all I know." 

 

 

Comments

[jules]

praise baby jesus.

Tom, don't suppose Sal is going to start wearing a visor?

[Matt McNaught]

Jules, when I saw that happen to Salvador, that was my first thought also. The guys who don't use visors yet need to start, especially the d-men.

[Pat]

Hopefully it doesn't swell up too bad he can't play Friday.

[Pat D'Amico]

What a trooper, glad to hear he's ok.

[Salvatore from Garfield]

"I feel great. We won."

Nominee for quote of the year.

Also, I applaud the job colin white did tonight. How many times was he in the right place at the right time?

[Robbie]

I was at the game, and i was loving every second of the crosby sucks, parises better chants

[FOTC]

Thank God!

[Jeff]

I was on that side of the ice and you actually heard the shot hit him. It was almost a splat sound.

[Robbie]

Holik trucked Letang. I was 16 rows up from there and it brought some enthusiasm to the game

[mikeschoenf]

gotta admit i never heard of bryce before we got him at the deadline last year.. and now I love this guy. now I know why Lou said how important it was for us to resign him. He is a team first solid solid d-man that uses his body.. can skate.. and is never out of position. He could play against any teams top guys.

[Jeff in Hoboken]

Thanks TG for getting us this info ASAP tonight. It's what everyone was wondering about. You're the man.

[Pearl Jammed(RJ Arditti)]

Huge win... i just wish Clemmer could have gotten a SO tonight, but alas it wasn't meant to be.... WE HAVE TO WIN ON FRIDAY, that game will be the best barometer of where we are right now. I personally don't think the Rags are that much better than we are, but we just have some mental block against them and if we can get the proverbial monkey off our backs i think we could be well on our way to big things this season

[DiscordantLight]

TG,

You truly are the man, all of us here on this board should chip in and get you a christmas present!! :)

[Steve Lepore]

TG, what do you make of the fact that the Devils outdrew the Nets/Knicks game tonight at the Disaster by the Swamp?

NJ/PIT: 16,808
NJ/NY: 16,722

[chico1]

that was scary...first thing i thought of was the colin white injury. good to hear it did not mess up the eye ball!

salvador is definately a trooper.

[Tom Gulitti]

That's pretty good that Devils outdrew the NBA game. As I mentioned, the crowd filled in as the game went on. Not sure there were actually 16,808 people there, but it wasn't nearly as bad as it looked at the start of the game.

That happens a lot. The people in the lounges make it hard to tell how many people are actually there in the first period. I would say it's a late arrival thing, but it even happens when they have afternoon games.

[Just Some Guy]

I was really disappointed with the size of the crowd in the first period. At the faceoff there seemed to be maybe 4,000-5,000 seated and you could hear a pin drop for much of the period. It took a while for the seats to fill in as Tom mentioned. There is so much going on in the corridors in the new arena that I don't think the place will ever have a full look.

[JJ]

You can always tell when it's a big crowd by looking in the 100 sections and the front row end ice seats of the upper level. If there are smatterings of people there at the drop of the puck then near capacity tix are sold and it will be a good crowd. Quite frankly there wasn't really much going on in the first period (esp. early) for the crowd to get loud about so I'm not surprised it didn't pick up until the end of the period and beginning of the 2nd.

[Jack]

Every NHL team announces distributed tix, not actual people showing up.
It was not a loud or spirited crowd but it filled in nicely after arriving late due to some wet roads.

[HoOn]

I'm glad that Salvador is ok. That was scary! I also thought that it was a colin White kind of injury. Thank God it wasn't. On the note of Colin White. I know Colin White has been playing good with a good +/- rating but sometimes I've noticed him clear pucks out to the opposing team. I am wondering if he does have a peripheral handicap. he did it again last night in the first period where he banked it off the boards and passed it to the opponent. He's done that a lot this season.