If it is a shoulder injury, giving it a week or two to get the inflammation down might buy a few more games.
When it is inflamed, you become very aware of how many nerves run down your arm past that joint.
I've had 2 shoulder injuries that required surgery and once the inflammation went down, it went from every movement in the hand or arm shooting pains everywhere to just localized pain or instability at the actual injury site. In my college football years I sat for 2 games and then played the last 3 regular season games and the one playoff game with a brace and was effective until it dislocated again in that playoff game.
That is likely why he is still skating rather than being shut down.
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