Being hit with the puck

Being hit with a hockey puck anywhere on your body can be a very painful experience. Most times a player is hit in the leg, where there is padding but often times a player gets hit in the face.  Players are not required to wear visors but many do. The visors reduce (but don't eliminate!) the risk of getting hit in the eye.  Broken noses and jaw bones and even orbital bones are effects of being hit in the face by a solid rubber puck.  Wrists are sometimes broken when the puck lands between the glove and the arm pad.   In the picture you see Sidney Crosby of the Pittsburgh Penguins following a puck he received to the face.