"We all should have used our common sense and figured out right away that Flyers center and NHL scoring leader Claude Giroux wasn't going to take the kind of head shot that he did last weekend and just go on with life.

That's not the way it is anymore in today's NHL, yet the early hints coming from the Flyers were that their young star would escape serious injury and that this would just be a scare, not another Sidney Crosby situation.

A day later, we were told Giroux 'felt better' on Sunday, and on Monday the next word from the Flyers was that he's 'continuing to feel better' even though he was left home for a two-game roadtrip.

Turns out at least some of this optimism was way off base."