BOSTON -- Boston Bruins goaltender Byron Dafoe returned
from his latest injury, a pulled hamstring, Friday night in Boston's 2-2 tie with the Nashville Predators.
Dafoe has played three games this season but left the last two
with a hamstring injury. He has been sidelined since playing
only a period in a 5-0 loss at Los Angeles on Oct. 13.
A finalist for the Vezina Trophy two seasons ago, Dafoe missed
the final two months of 1999-00 with a knee injury that required
surgery.
Without their top goaltender this season, the Bruins changed
coaches and general managers while going 3-8-0.
Dafoe is 1-1-1 with a 3.58 goals-against average and .889 save
percentage. Over 41 appearances in 1999-00, which began with a
contract holdout, he was 13-16-10 with a 2.96 GAA.
Dafoe suffered cartilage damage to his knee in a 5-2 loss at
Vancouver on Feb. 21, the same game in which defenseman
Marty McSorley slashed the temple of Donald Brashear.
The English-born Dafoe, nicknamed "Lord Byron," had a career
season in 1998-99, going 32-23-11 with a 1.99 GAA, .926 save
percentage and a league-leading 10 shutouts in 68 games.
In his seven-year career with the Bruins, Los Angeles and
Washington, Dafoe is 106-109-45, although he is 76-41-31 in 177
appearances with Boston.
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