MM, I have heard that and now after a few cases believe it has merit. My buck last year was a perfect 5 on the right but his left was wonked out and grew some nontypical points to boot with a total of 7 points. I noticed this buck in ML season and he had a sizable limb on the rights side. In rifle season I called him with rattling and shot him, I noticed the injury appeared worse and upon skinning him found lots of bruising and puss in the right rear ham...the injury appeared older and just wasn' t healing properly. On another occasion it happened with an elk his right was a solid heavy 5, but his left almost appeared to be a spike(although having 5 points coming out in shorter nontypical fashions), upon skinning we found this elk had sustained a broken right leg and it healed but old puss in the area indicated that the break may have happened earlier that year, possibly in the velvet stage causing for some malformation of his antler on the left side. The deer you picture could be a direct result of the eye loss or another injury. It is possible just old age and nature, I have viewed this as well when they go over the hill them horns can do some crazy stuff.
Don' t really know for sure, kind makes it fun to play corner when you harvest such an animal though.

Good luck in tracking down one eye!!!