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Red Wings forward Brendan Perlini grateful facial injury wasn't worse

Brendan Perlini talks about the facial injury he suffered Tuesday in Buffalo when he took a skate near his nose and eye. The Detroit News

Newark, N.J. — There was some stark perspective Wednesday night at dinner for Brendan Perlini.

While Perlini was nursing a nasty laceration around his nose and right eye that required about 22 stitches after a scary incident during Tuesdays game, talking with his friend, who was in the Army, put everything in perspective.