Here's Justin Bieber getting savagely checked in the NHL All-Star celebrity game
The NHL All-Star celebrity game puts former pro hockey players on the same ice as actors and musicians -- which can apparently lead to moments like this.
Justin Bieber learned the hard way just how physical the NHL can be when Chris Pronger checked him into the boards Saturday.
Associated Press photographer Mark J. Terrill was in position to snap this amazing photo.
Pronger was a 6-foot-6, 220-pound defensemen in the NHL for 18 seasons (he's technically still under a playing contract, but hasn't actually played in a few years). Here's video of the collision, in which it looks like Pronger wasn't nearly as hard on Bieber as he could have been.
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Bieber seemed to have a pretty good time, though.
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He even scored a goal.
Sam Laird is Mashable's Senior Sports Reporter. He covers the wide, weird world of sports from all angles -- as well as occasional other topics -- from Mashable's San Francisco bureau. Before joining Mashable in November 2011, his freelance work appeared in publications including the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Slam, and East Bay Express. Sam is a graduate of UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz, and basketball and burritos take up most of his spare time. Follow him on Twitter @samcmlaird.
