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| | Lightning G Tokarski needed 2 bags of sodium chloride solution after the game to fight off full body cramps. Said he almost left game in 3rd :paradicsom:
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Dustin Tokarski was so dehydrated after Thursday night's game with the Capitals, he needed two bags of intravenous sodium chloride solution to fight off a full-body cramp.
He walked stiff-legged from the trainers' room — where he spent 45 minutes with emergency medical technicians standing by as a precaution — to the dressing room, where he said he was in so much pain in the third period he almost left the game.
Still, first on his mind after the 3-2 overtime loss at the Verizon Center was the save he said he should have made in the third period.
"I've got to make another save," Tokarski said of Marcus Johansson's shot that slipped through his legs with 3:58 left and tied the score 2-2. "If I make a big save … I can seal the deal for us."
"I almost left," he said. "Every whistle, every timeout I was taking salt, taking pills. I couldn't even stand in the dressing room. As soon as I sat down, my knees, quads, calves, elbows, I couldn't move my hands."
The sodium chloride will help as will constantly drinking water.
"He'll be fine," head athletic trainer Tommy Mulligan said.
Except when he thinks about Johansson's goal.
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