Sometime in the first half of the second period of the January 4 game against the LA Kings, Erik Johnson suffered a lower body injury. I didn’t see the play, and judging by the announcers at the time and the news since then, no one else did either. I just noticed that it was Nick Holden on the ice at the 11:01 mark when Tyler Toffoli scored on the power play, not the usual penalty killer Erik Johnson.
In any case, head coach Patrick Roy announced during a post-practice presser that Johnson would be gone “short term” with his injury, elaborating to “five to 10, 12 days.