Off-ice official released from hospital after being stretchered off Friday

Joe Foley, the off-ice official who was stretchered away following a scary incident Friday in Boston, appears to be on the mend.

Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital released Foley not long after examining him Friday night, and the hope is he'll return to his role later in the first-round series between the Bruins and Carolina Hurricanes, an NHL spokesperson told the Boston Herald's Steve Conroy.

Foley sustained the injury during Game 3 when fans at TD Garden inadvertently dislodged a pane of glass by banging on it after the Bruins took a 3-1 lead. The pane fell on Foley while he worked in the penalty box.

Trainers from both teams attended to him before he was stretchered off and taken to hospital.