Braydon Coburn Doubtful For Game 3

Braydon Coburn: An Unfortunate, But Avoidable Injury

Posted 5/12/2008 on FanHouse

NHL Network is replaying last night's Pens-Flyers game right now, which means I got to watch Braydon Coburn get smacked in the face one more time by a deflected puck -- an injury that was as gruesome as it was avoidable. After all, as Greg Wyshynski pointed out this morning at Puck Daddy , all it may have taken to keep Coburn in the lineup for Philadelphia was a clear plastic visor, a ...

Game Two: Double Whammy Down 2-0, Another Defenseman

Posted 5/12/2008 on The ADD Show - Aaron and Dave Discuss

With the Flyers already down their best defenseman in Kimmo Timonen, they got what they could ill afford early on; an injury to another defenseman. Braydon Coburn, Timonen’s defensive partner, went down early in the period when he was hit in the face with a puck that deflected off the stick of Evgeni Malkin. The [...]

Flyers' Coburn will miss Game 3 with eye injury

Published 5/13/2008 on USATODAY.com NHL - Top Stories

Braydon Coburn's swollen and battered face looked much worse than the young Philadelphia Flyers defenseman said it felt.

Coburn's Injury Completely Preventable

Published 5/12/2008 on Capitals Insider

Philadelphia defenseman Braydon Coburn's injury last night really bugged me. How many times do we have to watch these incidents before players realize that protecting their vision is far more important than looking tough? Visors won't prevent all face ...