Injury Updates: Alfredsson, Dupuis, Robidas, Virtanen and Lucic

“When you do it every day for a couple of weeks we’ll see how it feels,” Alfredsson said. “Make sure it holds up and it’s not just feeling good for a little bit and then you’re in and out all year long. That’s not what anybody wants.
“Every day it’s been progressing good. As we push more and more it’s going to be more telling.”

Alfredsson will decide before they leave for the start of training camp in Traverse City on September 17th.

“If Alfie tells me he can’t play hockey, my decision has been made,” general manager Ken Holland said. “If Alfie tells me he feels great, and he wants to play hockey then we have to sit down and talk.

“He wants to play. He wants to be fair to the Detroit Red Wings. And he wants to put himself through an everyday test that starts this week.”

“My skin, I don’t have any sensation anymore, on the front, because they cut all the nerves and everything,” Dupuis said Wednesday.

“When I have my equipment on, I’m fine because when I fall, I feel . But if I don’t have anything on and I go to kneel down, I have to think about where I’m at physically, because I don’t feel it when my knee goes down.”

“I feel I’m where I should be,” he said. “Obviously, it’s been a long process to get where I am now.”