Nokelainen cleared to skate.
Dan Wood reports on the Ducks' Web site that Petteri Nokelainen was back on the ice this morning to skate with teammates in advance of Thursday night's game against the Boston Bruins:
Center Petteri Nokelainen, meanwhile, returned to practice after having been sidelined because of a groin issue. Nokelainen, recovering from offseason abdominal surgery, traveled to Philadelphia on Tuesday to see Dr. William Meyers, the surgeon who performed the procedure.
Meyers discovered nothing more than scar tissue built up in the area.
"That was the best news I could get," Nokelainen said.
Nokelainen plans to take things "day by day," increase his work level incrementally, and hopes to be ready for action relatively soon.
About J.P.
J.P. Hoornstra has been covering the Anaheim Ducks since 2007. Eight months after the University of Wisconsin won its third NCAA hockey championship, he was born in a frigid Madison winter. He betrayed his blue-blooded beginnings by graduating from UCLA in 2003, and welcomes any and all dialogue on the finer points of hockey.
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