P.K. Subban Spent Eight Days With His Stanley Cup Final Earpiece Lodged In His Head Before A Doctor Removed It

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P.K. Subban has spent the past few years contributing to ESPN’s coverage of the Stanley Cup Final, and he encountered a very unexpected issue after the conclusion of this year’s championship series thanks to an earpiece that managed to spend more than a week lodged in his head.

In 2022, P.K. Subban hung up his skates after spending 13 seasons in the NHL before joining the ranks of the many professional athletes who’ve pivoted to broadcasting after bringing their careers to an end.

The longtime defenseman inked a three-year contract with ESPN in the wake of his retirement a year after the network obtained the broadcasting rights to the NHL to bring the league’s disastrous partnership with NBC to a merciful end, and he’s been a staple of its coverage ever since.

On June 24th, Subban headed to Amerant Bank Arena to watch the Florida Panthers top the Edmonton Oilers in Game 7 of the Stanely Cup Final to secure the most iconic trophy in sports for the first time in franchise history.

According to a video that he posted on Tuesday, Subban found himself dealing with some lingering ear pain in the wake of the final game of the series that only continued to get worse as time went on.

He initially chalked it up to an infection that worsened to the point where he decided he needed to visit a doctor to figure out what was going on, and he got a very unexpected surprise when the physician took a closer look and discovered the pain was stemming from a chunk of the earpiece he was wearing that had broken off and gotten stuck “just against the eardrum.”

While it probably shouldn’t have taken him eight days to address what he described as “the most excruciating pain,” that’s a textbook case of better late than never.