Michal Kempny

Michal Kempny returns to Washington after freak injury with shovel: ‘Sh*t happens’

Michal Kempny returned to Washington over the weekend disappointed after suffering another unlucky and bizarre injury.

On Saturday, while playing for the Hershey Bears, Kempny was injured during a break in play after being struck by an ice shoveler. The Czech defenseman was in Hershey to rehabilitate a torn Achilles he suffered over the offseason.

“I don’t think it’s too, too bad,” Bears head coach Spencer Carbery said of Kempny’s setback after the game. “Just an unfortunate situation.”

Capitals head coach Peter Laviolette also commented on Kempny’s unfortunate shovel incident.

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Michal Kempny gets injured by ice scraper during Hershey Bears game

Michal Kempny, who is on a conditioning stint with the Hershey Bears, got injured during the second period of the team’s 3-0 victory over the Lehigh Valley Phantoms, Saturday.

But *please note* the injury did not happen during actual gameplay. Kempny had “incidental contact” with one of the ice scrapers as play was paused. Spencer Carbery, according to Inside AHL Hockey’s Julie Beidler, said after the game to “chalk that up to the weird things this year.”

He described Kempny’s injury as not “too, too bad.”

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