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Peter Laviolette gets hit by a puck behind Predators bench

Jacob Trouba redirected a puck right into Laviolette’s face.

by Patrick Iversen
Bruce Fedyck-USA TODAY Sports
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From time to time, coaches will have to duck for cover as pucks whizz towards their heads from a player’s stick. But sometimes players just bat a puck out of midair into coaches’ faces randomly.

Nashville Predators coach Peter Laviolette is a victim of the latter crime. Sorry, Pete. We're pretty sure Jacob Trouba didn't mean it.

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