When you watch the video above (we also recommend checking out the helpful diagram we’ve provided after the jump), keep your eyes on #74 on the Predators, Sergei Kostitsyn (i.e. the guy who can’t quite handle the puck at the four-second mark). It’s tempting to follow the actual play that ensues, especially considering it ends in an Oilers goal – a short-handed goal, at that, as well as a goal that, considering Edmonton wound up winning 3-2, meant quite a bit to the game’s outcome. But keep your eyes fixed on Kostitsyn, not what happens on the ice. After all, it’s not like Kostitsyn had a lot of interest in what was happening on the ice. [SB Nation]

The NHL playoffs started with a bang as Shea Weber took exception to being hit from behind and slammed Henrik Zetterberg’s face into the glass – WWE Style.

Last night, Nashville Predators right wing Jordin Tootoo was on the wrong end of a high stick from Calgary Flames defenseman Scott Hannan…well, looking at it, we’re not sure whether it was more of a high stick or a high glove. Either way, it caught Tootoo right in the face…and left a mark.

We really can’t do any better than the YouTube description of this Brian McGrattan – Jay Rosehill fracas. Take it away, man on the internet: “Rosehill hangs in there and lands a few. McGrattan acts a FOOL and looks Possessed at the end there…”

Wade Belak, a former NHL enforcer who retired earlier this year to pursue a career in broadcasting, was found dead in Toronto today. He was 35. The Toronto Sun reported Belak hanged himself. Belak’s is the latest tragedy to befall the NHL this year, following the deaths of the Rangers’ Derek Boogaard and the Jets’ Rick Rypien. When there are so many tragedies in such a short time, it can be easy to forget each of these guys was, well, a person, with his own story and life. The picture of Belak with his young daughter above, though, brings that sharply into focus. The perception of him certainly wasn’t that of a guy who’s take his own life. Looking at that photo, we can see why not. RIP. [h/t Katie Baker, Photo via

Large hurtling people are an occupational hazard of filming a sporting event, which this NHL camera man found out the hard way.