It’s pretty common for NHL defensemen to take their frustrations out on their sticks. After a bad goal, they’ll slam them against goal posts or end boards in an effort to teach those little curved bastards not to disobey them ever again.
However, Florida Panthers d-man Keith Ballard must have felt that his stick really wasn’t to blame this time around, and decided to enact revenge on the real source of his frustration: His own goalie.
Watch as Ballard does Toshiro Mifune proud with this decapitation effort against Tomas Vokoun following an Ilya Kovalchuk tally.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUlT4JQVhCs
OK, to be fair, Ballard just has really bad aim. Still, once they surgically re-attach Vokoun’s ear, we imagine that first locker room meet-up is going to be awwwwwwkward.