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A sellout crowd of 17,565 in Boston sat in near silence after Patrice Bergeron, felled in a second-period collision with Canes defenseman Dennis Seidenberg in open ice, needed 3-4 minutes to regain his feet after taking the force of the hit directly to his head and banging his head hard upon falling to the ice, according to the Boston Globe.

Bergeron, who missed the remainder of last season after sustaining a Grade 3 concussion on Oct. 27, 2007, required assistance to regain his feet, but he ultimately skated off under his own power and then made his way slowly down the runway next to the Boston bench and into the dressing room.

"He said he could skate himself," said veteran center Marc Savard, who initially served as a crutch at Bergeron’s right elbow, while Chuck Kobasew propped up the left side. "So that was a good sign."

As of late yesterday afternoon, the 23-year-old Bergeron was at a local hospital for evaluation, suspected to have suffered a concussion and undoubtedly out of service for at least the next couple of games (tonight in St. Louis and Tuesday in New Jersey).

The Bruins, as is their wont, provided scant information about the injury, coach Claude Julien offering little more than the fact that the center was "a little dazed" by the hit, and promising the club eventually would release details about his condition.

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