I had a bit of a tough day [Tuesday] ... with my head hurting a bit from pressure. It's just something you want to be totally sure of.

Up until the other day I couldn't handle the pain caused by pressure in the skate.

Normally I?m peeling away to be a third guy, but I saw his head down and saw I had a chance to poke it away from him and fortunately it went in the net.

At this point, I'm just trying to see how it reacts after the ice. I have to make sure it doesn't flare up. I'm trying to string two days together to get some conditioning in.

Any time I can help chip in on the offensive side of the game, it's huge for us. Not just when I am coming back from injury.

Everything else surrounding the game is pretty much put on by the media. We, as well as the Colorado players, feel it's a dead issue. It's something that happened. We've moved on and they've moved on. We're different teams.