
'Ah, F**k!': Hockey Commentator Takes A Puck To The Face During Live Broadcast
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Buffalo Sabres rinkside reporter Rob Ray, who was hit by a puck last season, later showed off the "golf ball"-sized bump above his eyebrows.
Buffalo Sabres commentator Rob Ray kept it pushing despite a mid-game injury on Saturday after a puck smacked him in the face during a live TV broadcast.
The moment arrived when New York Rangers defensemen Will Borgen hit the puck over the boards in the first period and struck Ray, a rinkside reporter and a former NHL player who spent most of his career in Buffalo.
“Ah, fuck,” exclaimed Ray, whose profane reaction was picked up by the MSG Network broadcast.
Ray — who has the sixth-most penalty minutes in NHL history and whose fighting habits as a player sparked a league rule change — was left with “gashes above his eye and on his nose” along with a broken pair of glasses, Buffalo’s WIVB-TV reported.
Harry Scull Jr., staff photographer at The Buffalo News, captured a snap of the former NHL bruiser’s face after the hit.