Ryan Smyth, who was knocked out on a ripping, unsuspecting hit during an Alberta senior hockey league playoff game almost two weeks ago, is back on the ice, but whether No. 94 plays again this spring is very much in doubt.
“I’ve only been hit that hard once before by Jack Johnson,” said Smyth, the former Edmonton Oilers mainstay who was playing for the Colorado Avalanche when Johnson, then with Los Angeles Kings, leveled him with a clean wallop.
Smyth suffered a concussion and separated his shoulder as a result when he smashed into a partition by the Avalanche bench on the Johnson hit.