SO NICKLAS LIDSTROM HAS UM, A DAMAGED TESTICLE

So there were rumors going around that Nicklas Lidstrom's injury in the WCF was groin related....

Most, like myself, figured a sports hernia or maybe a pulled muscle...

But this, this is about 100x worse

Inquiring minds wanted to know why Detroit's incomparable defenceman Nick Lidstrom missed the final two games of the Western Conference final between the Red Wings and Chicago. The media spoke only of the ubiquitous "lower-body" injury. And when Lidstrom appeared tired and mistake-prone in the Final against Pittsburgh, questions were raised again about his fitness to play. Was it an ankle? A knee? Under the NHL's Orwellian injury disclosure policy, a postal-code approximation of the hurt was all that was given to the media.

Actually, Lidstrom had a damaged testicle from being pitch-forked by Chicago's Patrick Sharp in Game 3 of the Western final. He needed all the time between the cheap shot and Game One of the final to rehab the injury. As Paul Harvey used to say, "Now you know the rest of the story".

I'm guessing that IcyHot doesn't really work for an injury like that...Actually, that's a bad joke. Im going to stop writing right now....My nuts hurt just reading that story