MONTREAL -- Max Pacioretty returned to the Montreal Canadiens lineup against the Ottawa Senators on Sunday afternoon, eight days after undergoing an emergency appendectomy.
The original prognosis for Pacioretty was a three to four week absence following last Saturday's procedure, but he skated on a Canadiens off day Thursday and joined his teammates for a 90-minute practice on Friday.
"The doctors said I wouldn't make it any worse and the timetable was in my hands now," Pacioretty said after practice Friday. "That was music to my ears."
Pacioretty played with his usual linemates David Desharnais and Erik Cole, bumping Lars Eller down to center the fourth line between Travis Moen and Colby Armstrong. Eller had a goal and three assists in Saturday's 6-1 win against the Buffalo Sabres playing left wing with Desharnais and Cole.
This is the first time this season the Canadiens are icing their full lineup after the return of defenseman P.K. Subban in Saturday's game following a prolonged contract negotiation for the restricted free agent defenseman.
Pacioretty has a history of proving doctors wrong.
He won the Bill Masterton Trophy last season for coming back from a concussion and cracked vertebra in his neck, costing him the final 15 games and seven playoff games in 2010-11. He also suffered a cracked rib earlier in the 2010-11 season, being rushed to hospital in Buffalo after taking a puck to the ribs during a game against the Sabres.
That cracked rib did not cost Pacioretty a single game, and he was cleared to return to action for the second round of the 2011 Stanley Cup Playoffs if the Canadiens had managed to win Game 7 of the first round against the Boston Bruins just two months after his concussion and cracked vertebra.
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