There are few things scarier in the world of sports than when a hockey player gets a skate blade near the face or neck. On Friday night, Sabres forward Nathan Gerbe got one of those scares. Gerbe took the skate of teammate Paul Gaustad to the face in the third period of Buffalo's loss to the Detroit Red Wings, as Gaustad slipped and fell following a face-off at center ice. Gaustad's foot flew up into the air where it caught the 5-foot-5 Gerbe's face. Gerbe immediately threw off his gloves, clutched his face and skated off of the ice to...
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The Buffalo Sabres will be without forwards Patrick Kaleta and Nathan Gerbe for Saturday's game against the Nashville Predators.
Kaleta aggravated a groin injury in Friday's game against Detroit and didn't make it through the contest.
Gerbe was hit in the face by teammate Paul Gaustad's skate in Friday's game and needed stitches.
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One step forward.
Two steps back.
According to the Sabres, Nathan Gerbe and Pat Kaleta will be lost to the Sabres for tonight's game in Smashville.
Gerbe suffered his injury when he was sliced from nose to lower lip by the surgical steel skate blade of this centreman, Paul Gaustad. Pavel Datsyuk knocked Goose off balance and sent him to the ice, thus causing the injury...
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Another false start. Another home loss.
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