GIF: Rangers' Girardi avoids serious injury after Nazem Kadri's skate slices his neck

These close calls are becoming far too common. 

New York Rangers blue-liner Dan Girardi narrowly avoided a significant injury Saturday as the skate of Toronto Maple Leafs forward Nazem Kadri grazed the side of his neck. 

Girardi emerged uninjured, but not completely unscathed.