Zachary Bolduc: Renaud Lavoie is (very) reassuring about his state of health

This morning, we learned that Zachary Bolduc is injured. The forward didn't hop on the ice with his teammates this morning, and there was talk of a lower-body injury.The club said Bolduc would be assessed on a daily basis, which was reassuring. But in reality, with the season just around the corner, there was reason to wonder… because, after all, the season starts in just a few days' time.

However, this afternoon, Renaud Lavoie took advantage of his appearance on BPM Sports to be (very) reassuring about Bolduc: it's really nothing serious for the Québécois forward, who is said to have only a minor groin injury.The informer would be surprised if he wasn't back next week. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaNtuN_QnIY

In fact, what you have to understand is that the club is really playing it safe here. They're handling the situation in much the same way they handled Noah Dobson's last week: they prefer to give him a few days before the start of the season to prevent his little boo-boo from getting any worse.If the Habs' season started tomorrow, he'd probably be in the line-up, basically.We don't expect to see Bolduc in uniform tomorrow, that said. In any case, his place in the line-up is already assured, so the club wouldn't gain much by playing him tomorrow. The priority right now is to focus on the start of the season,but despite that, the news is very good overall. Expect Bolduc to be ready for the first game of the year… and in the worst-case scenario, if he has to miss that game (which seems highly unlikely, at this stage), he should be back very quickly afterwards.All of which is reassuring, clearly.