Abel to Yzerman has the interview. Not time to freak out, but it is maybe a little worrisome. I’m just going go ahead and believe it’s only because the team wants a green light from this guy to go ahead with their plan to play Hank. You know, “He feels great and ready to play, we just thought we’d fly you in to verify that he’ll make it through the playoffs.”
It can’t be a “What?! Your back is hurting again?! Quick, call the specialist and charter a plane!” thing or else Chelios wouldn’t be talking about it. Hank hasn’t been skating around the rink at “100 mph” if his back going to keep him out of the postseason, and if there was a setback in practice, even the “Deep Diggers” so many of us have so little faith in would have had something about it.
The team knows these games mean little and to insert him now would be a fiasco if some donkey who just got his clubs down from the attic decided to practice his golf swing on Zetterberg’s vertibrae. At least let Hank participate in meaningful hockey if he’s going to have to deal with cross-checks to the lower back.
If by this time next week he hasn’t suited up and doesn’t look any closer to doing so, then it’s time to freak out.
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