"When you're sitting in the doctor's office and he tells you your eye probably won't come back to normal, that was a hard day. That was about a week-and-a-half after [the injury]. They told me originally that I would be all right, but once the blood started flushing out of there they started to see a little more damage. The next thing he said is, 'You're still going to play.' But you still don't know if you're going to get back to that level, and obviously that's what I have to prove. I'm anxious to do that."

-Marc Staal of the New York Rangers. More from Dan Rosen of NHL.com including a few mor hockey topics.