"Mike Green was definitely making progress last week. He underwent successful sports hernia surgery on Jan. 17 and was back on the ice.

He skated four days in a row and reported after Day Three to be moving along well.

"Mentally I feel great. I have a progression of the injury," he said last Thursday. "At least I have an end date where I should be better and that's comforting. But physically I'm Day Three into being on the ice and today with equipment on. It's still early. But from the point of the surgery I'm two weeks in and on the right path.""