This will perhaps be the beautiful story of the NHL play-offs which begin Saturday, behind closed doors, in the Canadian bubbles of Edmonton and Toronto. The French striker, Alexandre Texier, will indeed find the ice in an official match, seven months after his serious back injury (stress fracture of a lumbar vertebra). While the season, in normal times, should have ended without him, the health crisis has upset all sporting calendars and finally allowed the French to perk up and to be today on the line of the NHL “restart”, like two other French people entered in this final phase, Antoine Roussel (Vancouver) and Pierre-Edouard Bellemare (Colorado).
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And obviously, Texier is in good shape. After Antoine Roussel, who scored the day before in preparation with Vancouver (1-4 defeat against Winnipeg), the French striker scored his first goal on Thursday in the Columbus jersey since December 14 against the Boston Bruins. An achievement at the very end of the game, on a puck recovery in the defensive zone and in an empty cage for a 4-1 victory, during the only preparatory game of the Blue Jackets, who will face the Toronto Maple Leafs in the preliminary round, with a first game on Sunday.
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