Lebda doing well
Brett Lebda is doing well after recovering from a hit by Ville Nieminen, which resulted in a concussion. Between that and his college team, Notre Dame, losing to MSU in the NCAA tournament, Lebda did not have a good weekend.
While Lebda was at the Detroit Medical Center, Nieminen visited him while the game was still going on.
“He came over before the game was over and apologized,” Lebda said.
“That was a class act on his part. I thanked him for that part. He felt bad. I saw him for about five minutes.”
Lebda didn’t seem to hold any hard feelings toward Nieminen, who has a previous history of questionable hits on opposing players.
“Everyone is trying to play hard out there, and sometimes you get caught up in a lot of stuff,” Lebda said.
“I don’t know if it’s on purpose on not. You’d like to think it’s not. I’m OK with it. It happens, you get back out there, and hopefully it doesn’t happen too often.”
Nieminen will not be suspended by the league. I think a game misconduct and the five minute penalty was not enough punishment for what he did even if he did go and apologize to Lebda in the hospital.
Lebda won’t skate for a couple of days, but would like to play Thursday when the Wings take on the Nashville Predators.
“We’re fortunate he’s a young guy and still has some elasticity to him and was able to bounce back quickly,” Wings coach Mike Babcock said.
“Now, how long is he going to be out? I don’t know the answer to that. But I’m sure our doctors and training staff will get that sorted out.”
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