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Boyle finished the game with a minus-1 rating in 19 minutes of ice-time while taking two shots. Canadas Roberto Luongo was also back between the pipes for the Vancouver Canucks on Saturday after being given a "mental health day" by the Canucks staff on Thursday in a loss to the Ottawa Senators. Team Sweden is likely breathing a sigh of relief this morning as the Detroit Free Press is reporting that Red Wings forward Tomas Holmstrom leg injury is not as bad as originally thought. The 37-year old left Saturdays game against the Los Angeles Kings with what the team originally described as a leg injury. Upon further examination it was determined that Holmstrom suffered a bruised left knee and the injury was not related to the broken foot that caused the Pitea, Sweden native to miss 13 games earlier in the season. In other Olympic injury news the Star Tribune reported that Finlands Niklas Backstrom returned to the ice on Saturday with his Minnesota Wild teammates after undergoing an undisclosed medical procedure on Thursday. Backstrom plans to go through a full workout on Sunday then practice on both Monday and Tuesday in hopes of getting the start on Wednesday against the Phoenix Coyotes. The Helsinki native had been suffering both headaches and backaches and only recently discovered that the two ailments were related."They found out the reason and I got it done Thursday," Backstrom told the Star Tribune. "[Friday] was good and [Saturday] I feel great. It was scary and you start to worry about it. But I was relieved once they found out what it was. It was an easy thing to fix." 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