OTTAWA — There’s no need now for the Ottawa Senators to pretend that captain Erik Karlsson is at full health. “It’s better,” he said about the injury he suffered against the Detroit Red Wings on April 4, which came on the heels of an earlier foot injury on March 28. “We worked on a few small things and I wanted to be out there for that,” Karlsson said. You’ve got to regroup.”To hear Karlsson talk, losing the opener is simply a case of one step back, two steps forward. If his own foot injury follows that pattern, the Senators might yet get a leg up on the Bruins.

Source: National Post April 14, 2017 20:37 UTC