Senators' Ryan not experiencing concussion-like symptoms following collision Sunday

For both company and employee, a season-threatening injury for Bobby Ryan would be downright catastrophic.

The Ottawa Senators forward renounced an opportunity to sign an insurance policy this summer, hoping to play his way into a bigger role - and ultimately a fatter paycheck - this season. 

Ryan went directly to the locker room in Sunday's first intrasquad game after a collision with Kyle Turris, but appears to have avoided both concussion symptoms and torpedoing the Senators. 

"It was a broken play and Turris was circling one way behind the net and I was circling the other, and I think we both had a pretty good head of steam and never saw each other," Ryan told the Ottawa Citizen. 

"I just took it on the chin a little bit. It was alarming, I guess, that’s the right word. They want to be very cautious with it."

Alarming indeed. With this reminder of how short hockey careers can be, Ryan could be reconsidering that reported seven-year, $49-million offer he may have turned down right about now.