In Saturday's SovetskySport, an obviously frustrated Alexander Semin informs Dmitry Chesnokov of his latest injury -- incurred non-accidentally at the stick of St. Louis' David Backes Thursday night: "I have already been to the doctor. I think that maybe my nerve washit. And now it is squeezed. I can hardly walk. I have no clue howmany games I am going to miss. I felt bad this morning. I feel worsethan I did yesterday. I am trying to [use] pain relievers . . . I am sotired of these injuries. Just [recently] one injury healed, my shotgot better. Now here is another one. When is this all going toend?"
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