"Ottawa Senators general manager Bryan Murray is crossing his fingers that Daniel Alfredsson can recover quickly from the concussion he has.

Alfredsson initially had headaches and wasn't feeling well, said Murray, but he was headache-free on Monday. Still, he will be out for at least a week.

Given that, the loss of one of his better players, it's not surprisingly that Murray was very unhappy to hear the NHL was not going to suspend or penalize Wolski.

Wolski was called for an illegal check to the head after he hit Alfredsson at 12:09 of the third period of Saturday's game against the New York Rangers.

The NHL doesn't publicly release its reasons for not suspending a player – a policy Murray agrees with, since the league shouldn't be in the business of responding to every person who cries out for the suspension of one player or another – but Murray did get an explanation from Brendan Shanahan, the league's vice-president of hockey operations.

Shanahan gave him the bad news."