Mike Johnson

Hedman, I don't even know what he's going to do.

Hurt himself in warm-up.

How hurt are you going to be?

To hurt your groin in warm-up and not play a game.

I mean, I don't know at all.

Like, we don't have control of the picture, so I never saw it.

We never saw a picture of him getting hurt.

All I remember in that game was seeing... Yeah, right.

In that game, I remember him coming to the bench and like...

kind of wincing, sort of grimacing.

I'm like, oh, I wonder what's going on there.

He might have got squished, but wasn't sure of the severity of it.

I spent like an hour talking to his brother at some event that I went to, Josh Morrissey's brother, and he didn't give me any indication whether he'd play or not the last few games, but he just sort of said, well, it'd be terrible if he can't play again for a little while.

I'm like, whoa, that doesn't sound like he's playing in the final.

That sounds like...

He might not be playing for a stretch.

So, yeah, that's part of it.

But if he comes back in four weeks and you're Dallas and you're sort of locked into that 2-3 matchup anyways, like, is it the worst thing in the world for Mikko Rantanen to get three weeks off here, four weeks off, and then come back for 10 days and play the playoffs?

Probably not.

Not a player of his caliber.