![]() “The stick was the right shape, unfortunately,” explained Kuemper, who also was injured while with Arizona in 2019, when a stick accidentally struck him after a backhanded goal. Still, he has no plans to change goalie masks. “First time, definitely thought it was one in a million. “Super strange,” said Kuemper, who will be back in net when the Avalanche begin their second-round series against the St. It’s the second time in his NHL career an inadvertent stick blade has poked Kuemper through his mask. The stick of Nashville center Ryan Johansen slipped through the protective bars on Kuemper’s mask and caught him around the eyelid during Game 3 on May 7. “I got pretty lucky,“ Kuemper said, “that it wasn’t worse.” This remains clear to him, too: The incident could’ve been far more serious. ![]() “I can see now,” he said with a laugh Sunday after practice. DENVER (AP) - The swelling around Colorado Avalanche goalie Darcy Kuemper’s right eye has subsided a week after catching a stick blade through his mask.
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