Hockey player clotheslines himself in this painful Vine

 By 
Sam Laird
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For anyone who's ever performed an epic public fail then tried to play it off all cool like nothing happened: This is for you. In other words: This for all of us.

Mitchell Skiba is a junior hockey player for the Alpena Flyers in Alpena, Michigan. While skating off the ice after being ejected in a recent game, he -- there's no other way to put this -- somehow managed to clothesline himself. It looks painful, but we also can't stop watching the clip over and over again.

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Here's Skiba's moment of infamy:

The best part, however, is Skiba springing right back up and hustling back to the locker room like nothing ever happened.

He appears to be fine, as well, retweeting compliments over on his Twitter page. He also apparently delivered this massive hit earlier in the game:

The hockey gods giveth, and the hockey gods taketh. Glad ol' Mitchell lived to tell the tale.

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