Carl Grundström had knee surgery last Thursday. This was the scope and meniscus repair sort of thing, and the prognosis as reported in multiple places is for a fairly short recovery time. He may miss as little as a month, but a return early next year is also possible.
Lokomotiv played three games this week, and won two of them. The team is comfortably in fourth place in their conference and has very little realistic chance of moving up. They weathered their early poor play, and all they need to do is keep on keeping on for the second half of the season, which has the long Olympic break in it, and hope they can get lucky in their first round playoff matchup.