Joey Hishon will not play tonight when the Owen Sound Attack face Mississauga with the winner going to the semi final at the Mastercard Memorial cup.
The Attack's leading scorer during the regular season is still suffering from concussion like symptoms according to GM Dale DeGray.
"Joey is still a little foggy. He passed his baseline test," DeGray said this morning. "Right now we have to go day to day with him. It's a game - yeah these are important games and he would love to be in them, but until he's ready to go we have to worry about Joey. He has a great career in front of him, he's still day to day, still has some symptoms and needs to be symptom free before."
Hishon took an elbow to his head from Brayden McNabb of Kootenay when the two teams met on Saturday. DeGray vented when asked about the situation with Patrick King of Sportsnet.ca
"Joey Hishon is not enjoying this experience," DeGray said. "Is McNabb? You tell me. Damn right he is. Is that the way it should be? I don't know."
McNabb was given a one game suspension and missed the Ice loss to Mississauga.
"I would have rathered (McNabb) play the other day against Mississauga and help beat Mississauga and not play maybe tomorrow night if we play them," he said. "Maybe that's more of a fair penalty."
"He's feeling better," head coach Mark Reeds said. "It's about the athlete and as a 19-year-old, 20-year-old kid; we're not going to put him in a situation that's going to threaten his livelihood."
Reeds said not having Hishon "messes up your power play and penalty kill" but the Attack missed Hishon for 18 regular season games and managed to play well without him.
"He's been out before and other guys picked up the slack," said goalie Jordan Binnington.
The Attack will need that again tonight.
The loser will have to play in a tiebreaker Thursday against Kootenay.
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