WASHINGTON CAPITALS' QUINTIN LAING IS BACK AFTER SPLEEN SCARE

Tarik El-Bashir, Washington Post, provided an excellent article on Quintin Laing -- well worth reading. He starts:

Quintin Laing is tough, like most hockey players. He's missing most of his front teeth and he routinely sacrifices his body by throwing himself in front of 90-plus mph slap shots.

So when the checking-line winger began feeling lightheaded last March in his first game back from a knee injury, he stayed on the ice. A dull pain spread across his abdomen and his shoulder went completely numb, but he finished the game, skating 15 shifts in the Washington Capitals' 5-2 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning.

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