Here’s what Matt Greene said this morning about the upper-body injury that will keep him out of the lineup for the Kings’ game against Colorado tonight…
GREENE: “I’m still a little sore. We’ll just see what happens with the training staff. Hopefully I’ll get in a good day of treatment and we’ll see what happens tomorrow.”
Question: Did you know, immediately after the hit, that something was wrong?
GREENE: “It was just like any other hit. You feel it for a little bit but you just hope it goes away. Some of the soreness didn’t go away, and it just got a little worse overnight, so I’ll just see what Kinger [trainer Chris Kingsley] says and go off that.”
Question: I’m guessing you weren’t surprised that Tucker got a suspension for the hit…
GREENE: “It’s a tough play. I don’t know if he knew it was icing. I didn’t know it was icing. I know it was a collision, and it happens. It’s a play that happens in hockey all the time. You can’t be upset about it.”
Terry Murray, after saying that Davis Drewiske will replace Greene and that Peter Harrold will also play, largely for insurance purposes on defense, said he hadn’t immediately decided what his defensive pairs would look like. Greene had been partnered with Randy Jones in recent games.
MURRAY: “I don’t know how I’m going to get this paired up right now. I just got that information as we finished our morning skate. With that on the back end, I really feel it’s important to get Peter Harrold in as a right winger and available to play defense, if necessary. It’s been a long time since Whiskey has been in, and if something ever happened, with anybody else, I need that kind of a look with back-to-back games. I can rely on them, but I don’t want to risk it, with the back-to-back, if something developed with five (defensemen) only.”
And here’s what Murray had to say about Greene’s status…
MURRAY: “He’s got an upper-body injury there, so we’ll see. He will get treated today and see how it comes along. It will be day to day. … After he got hit on that icing play, he tried to get out there for another shift, and he wasn’t able to get on the ice for any more than 10 seconds. He had to get off, and didn’t play for the rest of the game. I had a heads up on that. His day, yesterday, was seeing doctors and kind of getting started with his rehab. That kind of thing, I mean, Tucker gets suspended for a game. That’s the stuff that players have to have more recognition with. … I’m going to call it day-to-day. I know it’s hard, when you have back-to-back games, to see a rebound in one game, one day. If it goes any further than the game tomorrow, I’m pretty sure he will be back in the lineup.”
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