Patrick Eaves is enjoying one of his best seasons so far tied with Tyler Seguin with 18 goals, 10 of those on the power play. So far this season he has only missed one game but he is lucky to be on the ice at all after a Roman Josi (Predators) shot from the point shattered his jaw back in 2011, when he played for the Red Wings.
Fortunately I didn’t eat it,” recalled Eaves. “But it got me through my ear hole on my helmet, broke my jaw in a bunch of places — kinda just blew up my ear up a little bit and dislocated everything so I was a mess for a while.