“Grateful” and “lucky” were the two most common words echoed by Jakub Lauko during his media scrum on Wednesday at Warrior Ice Arena.
Just over two weeks after a skate blade came within “millimeters” — as Lauko put it — of blinding him in his left eye, the Bruins winger was back on the ice at the team practice facility in Brighton.
A few fading stitches and the whites of his eye tinged red are the lone visible reminders of just how close the 23-year-old forward came to disaster on Oct. 24 in Chicago.
His eye now reopened after being swollen shut for a week, Lauko is charting a path back to game action.