lready, it's been a roller-coaster ride of a training camp for Niklas Hagman(notes).
In order—some bad, some good, some bad, some good.
In order—missing workouts because of the flu … turning in a two-point, plus-two, night in a 3-1 win at Vancouver … suffering an eye injury in that game … returning to the ice Sunday and feeling dandy.
Not that Hagman is fretting about finding his rhythm.
"No, there's still plenty of time," the Calgary Flames left-winger said after the morning's spin. "I don't worry about that."
But his peeper had been cause for concern.
A glancing blow Tuesday night to his left eye had initially appeared to be no big deal.
"I believe a glove hit it—just a harmless hitting situation," said Hagman. "I had my eye open and the other guy's glove hit it. During the game it was OK. After that, it got a little irritated, then my vision was a little blurry. I didn't want to take any chances with that. Now it's good. I can see well. I'm good to go.
"The eye, at the start, bugged (me) a little bit. But, like I said, it's fine now. It's a lot better now."
Don't you wear a visor?
"I do now," said Hagman. "I've been a little off and on with the visor. I'm going to keep it on for a little bit longer."
Sunday's session, which included the dinged-up duo of John Negrin(notes) and Matt Pelech(notes), was deemed a success by Hagman.
"I felt good," said Hagman, 30. "Had a good skate. (Today), I'm going to practise with the team. It felt good."
Which is swell news for the offence-starved locals.
A healthy Hagman represents a 20-goal presence.
"He's good to go, so we'll get him some good practice over the next day or two," said coach Brent Sutter. "Get a couple of good practices in, then, hopefully, get him into one, or both, games in the middle of the week."
Tuesday, the Flames face off against the visiting Phoenix Coyotes. Wednesday, they're in Saskatoon to take on the New York Islanders. C-NOTES: Former Flames getting free-agent tryouts with the New York Islanders include LW Dean McAmmond(notes) and D Anders Eriksson(notes). The Isles are also kicking the tires of G Manny Legace(notes) and Calgary kid C Krys Kolanos.
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