Ariana Grande, last night in Los Angeles (Splash News photo)
Let us explain:
Back in 1998, the then 5-year-old singer of Bang Bang always sat in the first rows with her mom and dad at Florida Panthers games.
Usually, she could be found behind the penalty box at the BB&T Center, where she shot the breeze with penalized but amused players and even the refs.
At the Panthers home opener that year, Ariana was violently hit by an errant slap shot fired by a Tampa Bay Lightning player.
She was struck in the left wrist and rushed by her folks to the nearest first aid station.
It wouldn’t have been reported by the local papers if it hadn’t been the second time that little Ariana was hit by a puck at a Panthers game — within 10 months.
“What are the odds of this happening,” her visibly shaken dad, graphic designer Ed Butera, told us that day.
Panthers players actually felt so bad that they gave Ariana various pieces of equipment — and a ride on the Zamboni.
A teenage fan was hit in the head by a puck in Columbus in 2002 and died. The league made it mandatory to use safety nets to protect the public after that incident.
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