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James Reimer’s latest injury got him waxing nostalgic.
On Tuesday night, Reimer got hurt in the first period versus Vegas.
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Boughner classified Reimer’s lower-body injury as week to week.
Reimer didn’t specify the exact play when he got hurt. But it was a familiar feeling.
“I’ve had something similar before in my career and it felt similar to that,” he reported. “So I wasn’t too worried that it was going to be something like super long-term.”
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When pressed, Reimer said that injury was about four years ago. Per TSN, in Feb. 2018, Reimer missed five games because of a groin injury. This isn’t definitive, of course: Reimer also had other injuries around that time.