"So what's up with Sami Salo? It seemed like a harmless enough question Monday for Vancouver Canucks head coach Alain Vigneault, who is the team's gatekeeper of medical information.

Salo has been out since the tumultuous Jan. 7 game in Boston when he was low-bridged by Bruins rat Brad Marchand and suffered what the Canucks say was a concussion. More than seven days have past since the incident and Salo still has not been seen at practice. But he is exercising at all? Maybe doing light workouts?

"I wouldn't even know," Vigneault told reporters at his daily press briefing. "I haven't even checked. I don't even think I've seen him since we've been here.""