Whatever maintenance kept Adam Fox off the ice for practice in the week leading into the second round did not keep the defenseman from putting together a solid Game 1 performance against the Hurricanes.
“It felt good,” Fox said after Monday’s practice. “I think it was more being off for a little while, you jump back into it, but yeah, felt good. They’re a team where you’re gonna be defending a little bit, you’re gonna have to battle hard. I felt like the game was pretty good.”
Fox has been on the wrong end of two different collisions this season, first with Carolina’s Sebastian Aho back in November — which put him out of the lineup for 10 games — and then with Nick Jensen in Game 4 against Washington.
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