Capitals' Orpik returns to practice, remains day to day
Brooks Orpik may soon be suiting up against the Pittsburgh Penguins.
The Washington Capitals defenseman, who missed the final three games of his team's first-round series against Philadelphia, practiced Tuesday but remains day to day and is questionable to be ready for Game 1 on Thursday.
"I still have to do some stuff with the doctors just to make sure everything is going all right," Orpik said, according to Isabelle Khurshudyan of The Washington Post. "That'll happen in the next couple of days. But it was a good step getting back on the ice."
Orpik was injured after being drilled into the glass by Flyers forward Ryan White in Game 3 of the six-game series, and the exact nature of his injury has not been disclosed.
"It was just one of those ones I didn't see it coming," Orpik said of the hit. "If I saw it coming, probably nothing comes of it. I've been hit a lot harder than that and been fine. I think it's just bad luck."
Orpik was limited to 41 regular-season games, averaging 19:49 of ice time a night.