Hockey gamers will take targets every time they will get them, however one AHL player in all probability didn’t need his newest to occur the best way it did.
The Utica Comets, the AHL affiliate of the New Jersey Devils, performed the Buffalo Sabres’ affiliate, the Rochester People, this previous Friday night time when Comets ahead Graeme Clarke skated towards aim and lifted a wrist shot towards web.
The one drawback was his teammate, Joe Gambardella, was in entrance of the web and the puck was heading straight towards his face. It ended up making contact with it, however the consequence wasn’t only a bloody mouth.
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Utica Comets middle Joe Gambardella (15) on the ice in the course of the third interval of the American Hockey League sport between the Utica Comets and Cleveland Monsters on December 2, 2023, at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland, OH. (Frank Jansky/Icon Sportswire through Getty Photos)
Gambardella’s face supplied the ricochet the puck wanted to redirect again towards aim and get previous the People’ netminder.
The Comets knew instantly whose aim it was when Gambardella shortly grabbed his face and skated towards the bench to get consideration from trainers.
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It was the second aim of the sport for Utica and Gambardella’s sixth of his season, because the Comets went on to defeat the People, 4-0.
Utica Comets proper wing Graeme Clarke (92) and Utica Comets middle Joe Gambardella (15) rejoice after Gambardella scored a aim in the course of the third interval of the American Hockey League sport between the Utica Comets and Cleveland Monsters on December 2, 2023, at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland, OH. (Frank Jansky/Icon Sportswire through Getty Photos)
Gambardella, an alternate captain with the Comets, is a Staten Island, New York native who has just a few video games of NHL expertise which got here in the course of the 2018-19 with the Edmonton Oilers.
He has been within the Devils’ system for the reason that 2021-22 season, and he at the moment has six targets and 14 assists for 20 factors in 37 video games this yr.
Utica Comets middle Joe Gambardella (15) shoots and scores in the course of the third interval of the American Hockey League sport between the Utica Comets and Cleveland Monsters on December 2, 2023, at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland, OH. (Frank Jansky/Icon Sportswire through Getty Photos)
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And a kind of targets he received’t be forgetting anytime quickly. The ache was momentary, however the reminiscence will final without end.
