Kelly Hrudey rips Vitek Vanecek to shreds for getting injured

There are bad takes, and then there's this one. During game one of the Washington Capitals-Boston Bruins playoff series Saturday night, goaltender Vitek Vanecek, who was starting in a playoff game for the first time in his career, would end up leaving after apparently pulling something while trying to save the puck on a Jake DeBrusk goal. You can see that below.

40-year-old Craig Anderson would take over for Vanecek and ended up getting the win 3-2 on overtime. In the meantime, asked about the injury during the first intermission, former NHL goalie Kelly Hrudey decided to rip Vanecek to shreds for getting hurt.

"I guess there's a part of me that I'm supposed to feel sorry for Vanecek, his first-ever NHL playoff start, but first of all, this is a bad goal; he just wasn't ready. You could tell immediately that something was wrong," Hrudey said as a replay of the goal was shown over his voice. "But I'm sorry, if you're an NHL goaltender, you should not be pulling or straining a muscle."

"That's one of your jobs, to make sure that you're stretched out, whether that means you stretch eight to 10 times during the course of a day before the game to make sure this doesn't happen. I mean, you've got to be a better pro than that."

"It's unfair to the organization, it's unfair to Craig Anderson," Hrudey continued.

I know Hrudey is known for some pretty controversial takes, but this one is just flat out bad. Pulled muscles are very common among netminders. Hrudey acted as if Vanecek is the first one ever to suffer this type of injury during a game and placed the blame squarely on his for something that was most likely completely out of his control. Terrible take and a terrible look for both Hrudey and the Hockey Night in Canada panel.