“I worked out (Thursday night) and felt good and felt good enough to skate (Friday) and take the (concussion) test this morning,” Seabrook said. “I feel a lot better.
"(Thursday morning) I rode the bike and did a workout and didn’t feel comfortable and didn’t feel right and took the res tof the day off and just sort of relaxed and felt better (Thursday night). The symptoms have been going away pretty quickly. When you get hit in the head that you want to take as much rest as you can and just relax. Any exertion is going to build up headaches and make you feel not great.”
“I don’t want to make an official announcement about Byfuglien being a defenseman, but we really liked what we saw,” coach Joel Quenneville said. “He really looks comfortable back there. Him and ( Niklas Hjalmarsson) looked like they’re a nice pair. As a group, we’re thinking, let’s keep (Byfuglien) on ‘D’ and see how it goes.”
Byfuglien played 20 minutes, 56 seconds against the Kings and had a team-high six shots and five hits while adding an assist. The extra room along the blueline has allowed Byfuglien to unleash one of the Hawks’ most lethal weapons - his slap shot.