Dallas Stars forward Mason Marchment was helped off the ice during Friday night's game against the Minnesota Wild and taken to a hospital after being hit in the face by a puck

Dallas Stars forward Mason Marchment suffered a gruesome injury during Friday’s home game against the Minnesota Wild, leading to his abrupt exit from the game. The 29-year-old forward took a puck to the face during the Stars’ power play late in the first period. He immediately collapsed on the ice holding his face with blood gushing from it.

Stars forward Mason Marchment was hit in the face by a puck in the first period of Friday's game against the Wild, and the team said he would not return.

Stars forward Mason Marchment was helped off the ice late in the first period of Friday night’s game against the Minnesota Wild after being hit in the face by a puck. Marchment was stationed near the crease during a Dallas power play when a shot by Evgenii Dadonov from near the blue line was redirected by Logan Stankoven and struck Marchment just below his visor.

Dallas Stars’ forward Mason Marchment left Friday’s game against the Minnesota Wild with an upper-body injury, with the team announcing on social media that he would not return.