Brown OK

By Matthew Kredell on January 7, 2008 3:09 PM | Permalink | Comments (3) |

Dustin Brown suffered a muscle injury in his upper back behind his shoulder blade when he crashed into the boards during Saturday's game against Calgary.

``It hurt more when it happened than any upper body injury I've ever had,'' Brown said. ``I came back into the game and it was sore. After the game, I could hardly lift my shoulder. But today it feels way better. It's still not 100 percent but it's improved a lot over the last day and a half.''

He doesn't anticipate the injury affecting his play tomorrow.

3 Comments

John said:

I know I'm not the only one taking a HUGE sigh of relief!!! That was scary. Browny is a BEAST! Talk about a heart & soul hockey player...and he's barely 23!

January 7, 2008 6:02 PM

Paul said:

Thanks for that Matthew. Well, that's the style of hockey he plays. :)

January 7, 2008 6:58 PM

we suck said:

Brown is a trooper!! he battles so hard every night. im so glad we got him locked up for 6 years!

January 7, 2008 7:23 PM

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