Mark Burke –

Adorable little children crying about their favorite athletes and teams running into some trouble is always a curious thing to witness.

As they stand there dropping buckets of tears onto the floor, you can’t help but wonder how in the world can they cognitively process the scope and extent of what a long-term injury really means. They can barely sit still for 10 minutes and eat lunch, never-mind looking weeks down the road and realizing Big Z won’t be patrolling the blueline.

But I’ll give five-year-old Abby some credit, she held herself together way better than I did when I learned about Chara’s injury.





[video via @NEHockeyjournal]

