Billy Jaffey covers the team for Nesson, and he joins us on the 18th, The expert hotline.

Hello, Mr. Billy Jaffe.

Hello, Mr. Fred, toucher.

Good morning.

What's going on?

If I can throw some water, some water on this fire.

Okay, Grinch.

Okay, there you go.

David Crachie is out, upper body.

Is this something that is just going to be what goes on through the course of this season

that he'll play a few games and have a few games off?

Is this something that you believe is going to linger?

The optics of it, or at least the feel of it, read it, is that it could be.

Yeah, I mean, because, you know, he was at morning skate yesterday. He participated. It wasn't a, we were talking about a post-game. It wasn't an overly physical morning skate, but it was a very energetic one. The guys had yesterday the day before off. Then yesterday they all came out for his skate, so there was no indication to us that he wasn't

all right so that leads you to believe that this is a flare-up type situation whether it's the

back who knows what it is again but he took a pretty hard hit in the previous game and his helmet

came off and he went up the ice slowly i mean players do that normally they kind of get their wits

about him again and then then they go off.

So this leads me to believe that if it's related to the previous thing,

which we believe is the back, that there's a flare up there that's just going to have to be managed.

Obviously, the good news is that was about the biggest bummer of the night the way that the team played.

Yeah, Rask seemed to have found his game.

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