Head coach John Tortorella went to the ice after a reportedly nasty collision with forward Rene Bourque.

UPDATE x2: The Columbus Blue Jackets are reporting that headh coach John Tortorella has two broken ribs after a collision in practice Friday.

The team said he is unlikely to coach the game tomorrow as he did not travel with the team to Boston.

An update on #CBJ head coach John Tortorella: he suffered two broken ribs after a collision in today's practice. — NHL Blue Jackets (@BlueJacketsNHL) January 22, 2016

Tortorella did not travel to Boston with the team, and it's unlikely he will coach tomorrow's game vs. the Bruins. #CBJ — NHL Blue Jackets (@BlueJacketsNHL) January 22, 2016

CBSSPORTS - UPDATE: After initially being cleared to travel with the team, Tortorella's status is now up in the air. GM Jarmo Kekalainen told the Columbus Dispatch that the head coach was taken to a local hospital.

“He's stubborn but he needs to go get checked out,” Kekalainen told The Dispatch. “His health is the most important thing.”

It's been this kind of season for the Blue Jackets, who remain in last place in the NHL. They've dealt with a host of injuries of late, so perhaps it was only a matter of time before someone else in the organization got bit by the injury bug.

Coaches are so poorly protected, often with nothing more than a tracksuit and hat between them and the frozen surface. Luckily this wasn't worse.

Torts just went down on the ice... Hasn't gotten up yet pic.twitter.com/fAXeYZOTBt — Kayla Anderson (@Kayla10TVOhio) January 22, 2016





ORIGINAL: The Columbus Blue Jackets were enjoying a unique practice Friday. The team was skating outdoors at Winter Park in Columbus ahead of their trip to take on the Boston Bruins when things came to a crashing halt, literally.

Head coach John Tortorella went to the ice after a reportedly nasty collision with forward Rene Bourque. The Jackets coach was attended to by team medical personnel before skating off the ice under his own power to receive further attention.

Bourque told Aaron Portzline of the Columbus Dispatch that he hit a rut in the ice before running into Tortorella and didn't even realize who he had hit.