No. 99, like so many of us, happened to be watching Tuesday night when No. 97 crashed into the end boards.
And like many of us, he got that pit in his stomach fearing the worst.
"I knew as soon as he went into the boards," Wayne Gretzky said over the phone Wednesday. "They’re so fast and big now in today’s NHL. It's incredible how fast the game is. From the positive side, I'm just glad the two Flyers players did nothing illegal on the play, it was a hockey play gone bad."
Was it ever.