Flames’ Connor Zary suffers most gruesome knee-on-knee injury in front of his mother

The Calgary Flames kicked off their trip in southern California on Tuesday night facing the Anaheim Ducks with the players’ mothers watching from the stands. For their annual Moms’ trip, the Flames went out fighting, though they loss one of their own doing so.

During the second period of the game while the Flames were up 1-0, Connor Zary had to be helped off the ice after getting kneed by Drew Helleson. The hit was straight on knee on knee, with Zary’s leg bending the other way in gruesome fashion.

This is hard to watch:

Helleson received a five-minute major and game misconduct for kneeing. On the play, Zary’s teammate Jakub Pelletier also took a two-minute roughing call for defending his friend.

The mothers were watching on and unfortunately for Zary’s mom, she witnessed her poor son in visible pain in a terrible scene on the ice.

It was later noticed that she was missing from the suite when the rest of the mothers celebrated Nazem Kadri’s goal minutes after the incident.

It was obvious that Zary was not going to come back from this injury in tonight’s game and we can only imagine that he will have to miss significant time because of it.

It’s hard to watch him in so much pain after the brutal hit. Zary has been on pace to put up career highs across the board, putting up 10 goals and 12 assists for 22 points in 39 games coming into Tuesday’s contest vs Anaheim.

Get well soon, Zary.