Patrice Bergeron eats fries, day-to-day for Game 6

Published Sunday, Jun 23, 2013 at 3:09 pm EDT
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Patrice Bergeron may or may not play in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup finals.

His injury may be to his upper body or his lower body or his middle body. It may or may not be his spleen. Maybe.

But one thing is certain: the Boston Bruins center is physically capable of consuming food. Given that he left his team's Game 5 loss on Saturday night in an ambulance, it's a relevant fact.

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So, we can rule out some possibilities for what Bruins coach Claude Julien called "a body injury" on Sunday. Bergeron's jaw isn't wired shut. He probably didn't have all his teeth or tongue removed/knocked out. His stomach and digestive system is probably still intact, for the most part. You put french fries in your mouth with fingers, so he likely still has those, or at least a workable number of them.

"He's day-to-day," Julien said. "That's good news to me."

The Bruins are down 3-2 to the Chicago Blackhawks. Game 6 is Monday night in Boston.