Colorado goaltender Darcy Kuemper left Game 3 of the Avalanche’s first-round series against the Nashville Predators on Saturday after taking a stick to the eye.
Kuemper was struck in the final minutes of the first period by Predators forward Ryan Johansen while he battled Colorado’s Nathan MacKinnon for position in front of the net. Johansen’s stick blade appeared to slide into Kuemper’s face mask and hit him in the right eye. Kuemper fell to the ice in pain before hurriedly being taken off by the Colorado medical staff.
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