On the heels of Adam Johnson’s tragic death, an NHL player just suffered a skate-related injury.

If you stop and think about it, the game of ice hockey seems a bit dangerous. A dozen grown men put boots with sharp metal blades on the bottom of them – and proceed to spend an hour using long sticks to whack a rubber object into a net.

It’s no surprise that players can suffer any variety of injuries along the way. Some are unlucky situations, some are freak accidents, and some are malicious.

The Edmonton Oilers are no stranger to this. Almost one year ago Evander Kane suffered a cut wrist that limited him to just 41 games played.

Current Seattle Kraken forward (and former Oiler) Jordan Eberle just suffered a skate injury of his own. Geoff Baker of The Seattle Times reports that Eberle suffered a “deep cut” near his quad muscle.

Eberle was scheduled to receive an MRI to ensure a tendon wasn’t cut. Obviously, you hope the injury is as minor as possible.

The Oilers are scheduled to play the Kraken on Saturday at 8pm Mountain Time.

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Sharks take second straight, earn rare win over Oilers

Mackenzie Blackwood made 39 saves as the San Jose Sharks won their second straight game, 3-2 over the visiting Edmonton Oilers on Thursday night.

Tomas Hertl and Fabian Zetterlund each had a goal and an assist and Filip Zadina also scored for San Jose, which snapped an eight-game losing streak (0-5-3) against Edmonton.

Darnell Nurse and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins each scored goals for Edmonton, which lost its fourth straight game and eighth in its last nine games (1-7-1). Stuart Skinner finished with 15 saves.

San Jose, which snapped its NHL record-tying 11-game winless streak (0-10-1) to start a season with a 2-1 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers on Tuesday, took a 1-0 lead at the 18:35 mark of the first period on Thursday.

Hertl passed the puck from behind the net to Zetterlund alone in the low slot. Zetterlund then fired a wrist shot on Skinner’s blocker side for his team-leading fourth goal of the season.

Edmonton tied it at 1-1 early in the second period when Nurse, coming down the right wing on a 2-on-1 with Leon Draisaitl, fired a wrist shot inside the far side post. It was his third goal of the season.

The Sharks regained the lead, 2-1, at the 9:05 mark when Nikita Okhotiuk’s wrist shot from the left point caromed off Zetterlund right to Hertl alone by the right side of the crease. Hertl then fired a wrist shot past Skinner’s glove side.

San Jose extended its lead to 3-1 early in the third period when Zadina buried a shot in the slot off a crossing pass from Nico Sturm at the end of a 2-on-1 break.

The Oilers pulled Skinner for an extra attacker with 2:50 left, and it paid dividends 16 seconds later when Nugent-Hopkins put in a rebound of Evan Bouchard’s one-timer — his first goal in nine games.

Edmonton had a good chance to tie it with a 6-on-4 power play after Okhotiuk picked up a slashing penalty. But Blackwood was up to the challenge, turning away a trio of shots.