Bruins Bergeron Practices With Team, Game 2 Status Uncertain
BOSTON (CBS) - Patrice Bergeron practiced with the Boston Bruins on Monday, the first time since he suffered a concussion in Game 4 against the Philadelphia Flyers.
Bergeron was a full participant to begin practice, and skated with the Bruins top line of Nathan Horton, David Krejci and Milan Lucic. He returning to the second line alongside Mark Recchi and Brad Marchand and participated in situational drills. He was on the ice for about an hour, but did not participate in the contact drills at the end of practice.
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Head Coach Claude Julien said over the weekend that Bergeron would not return to game action until he was 100-percent. After Monday's skate, the coach still did not know the status of his star player for Tuesday's Game 2 against the Lightning in the Eastern Conference Finals.
"As I said the other day, we're going through the protocol of what he has to go through and there's not much more to update you guys on, except that I think when he is ready to go, you guys will know it," Julien said. "It's just something that you can't predict how quickly or how slow it's going to be. It's just one of those situations where right now you see him going through what you saw him going through today, skating."
Bergeron Practices With The Bruins
"But that's protocol," Julien continued. "And right now we're not ready to make any comments because he's just going through those stages."
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Julien gave a "no comment" when asked if Bergeron might play Tuesday night.
Bergeron took to the ice for the first time since suffering the concussion on Saturday when he skated by himself. On Sunday, he participated in light and simple drills with one of the Bruins coaches.
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Bergeron sustained a mild concussion after being his by Philadelphia's Claude Giroux in Boston's 5-1 Game 4 win on May 6.
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