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Henrik Lundqvist out for Bruins game, day-to-day with neck injury

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The New York Rangers shared good news on Wednesday afternoon, for the most part.

Goalie Henrik Lundqvist is day-to-day with a neck injury. He’ll miss his start against the Boston Bruins, with Cam Talbot getting the nod.

The injury stems from that super scary puck to the neck he took in a game against the Carolina Hurricanes on Saturday. Lundqvist seemed to be OK afterward.

“When I get hit, obviously it’s painful, and it’s hard to breath for a couple of minutes. Very light-headed. I got a little worried the first minute or so but then they told me just to breath and slowly I started to feel better,” he said.

“The first couple of minutes it was more for me to just see is it going to start to feel better after a while. I slowly did. I had some headaches the rest of the game, I guess that’s normal because I couldn’t breath there for a little bit. It was a reaction, I guess.”

The following day, he tweeted “I’ll prob stick to soup today, feel pretty good though.”

On Monday, he took a maintenance day away from practice. On Tuesday, he saw a specialist, and the prognosis is day-to-day. At least, for now.

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