Just when the Bruins appeared close to completely healthy on their backend, Brandon Carlo suffered what will surely be the ugliest-looking injury of the season.
Engaged in a battle for the puck along the wall with Aleksander Barkov midway through the third period of a 5-1 Bruins win, Carlo appeared to lose his footing and fall to the ice.
And on the fall, his leg/ankle appeared to bend in a way that it should not.
(Warning: The following video gets absolutely terrible to watch about 35 seconds in.)
Stretchered off the ice and obviously done for the afternoon, Carlo's future status was given a non-update of sorts from B's head coach Bruce Cassidy.
"I don't have an update yet," Cassidy admitted. "Didn't look good when you go off on a stretcher, obviously. So, we'll keep our fingers crossed on that one.
In Carlo's immediate absence, the Bruins plugged Adam McQuaid to the right of Torey Krug, and even gave a few looks to both Kevan Miller and Nick Holden.
"If Carlo [does not travel to Philadelphia with the team] – [Zdeno Chara] and Charlie [McAvoy] have been skating; we'll see where they're at. Otherwise, we go to Providence. They happen to be in Pennsylvania right now; might be handy."
It's some absolutely horrible luck for Carlo, whose play has improved of late, and after a season that saw him injured in the 82nd game of the year and miss all six games of the B's 2017 Stanley Cup Playoffs first-round series with the Senators.
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