Nicklas Backstrom is back on the ice after missing Tuesday’s practice with an undisclosed “illness” that led Bruce Boudreau to describe his star center as everything from “probable” to “questionable” to “probable-questionable”. Ahhhh, playoffs.
Anyway, he looks okay physically now. But players are just skating laps so we’ll have to see how his energy is if this practice ramps up. Defenseman Milan Jurcina was on the ice early as he tries to recover from double hernia surgery. Brendan Morrison is still on the top line with Alex Ovechkin, Mike Knuble and Backstrom. Second line has Tomas Fleischmann at center with Alex Semin and Brooks Laich. Scott Walker, Jason Chimera, Eric Fehr and Eric Belanger are on the third line. Matt Bradley, David Steckel, Boyd Gordon and Quintin Laing are on the fourth line. All defensemen are on the ice with both goalies. More to come…
