Nov. 16--When Michal Rozsival returned to the ice Saturday for the first time since fracturing his left ankle, the veteran defenseman had a few reservations.
Foremost in his mind was how he would respond mentally to the twisting and turning necessary on the ice, given that Rozsival suffered the injury twisting and turning against the Wild in May.
"I did have a little bit of that in my mind but as the game went on I forgot about it," Rozsival said. "I just focused on playing and I didn't really worry about what's going on down there (with) my skates and my ankle."
Rozsival, who played 13 minutes, 20 seconds Saturday against the Blues, felt good enough to skate Sunday against the Flames, as did defenseman Duncan Keith, who played 27:34 on Saturday.
"The ankle was feeling fine, a little tired, but overall pretty good and ready to go again," Rozsival said. "It wasn't feeling great at the beginning (Saturday) but as the game went on I felt better and better."
No more penalties: The league looked closely at three incidents during the Hawks' victory over the Blues, but a source said no supplemental discipline will be handed down to the Hawks' Jonathan Toews and Marko Dano or the Blues' David Backes.
Toews was penalized for an illegal check to the head when he delivered a hit to Backes in the waning moments of the first period. In the second, Backes got his revenge when he boarded defenseman Niklas Hjalmarsson. In the aftermath of that hit, Toews and Backes dropped the gloves and fought.
Not long after, Dano drew a boarding penalty for a hit on Robby Fabbri, but in all three cases, the league determined no supplemental discipline was warranted.
