The veteran left winger took some friendly fire early in the match when Ottawa Senators' defenseman Marc Methot sent Penguins' center Sidney Crosby flying with a huge hip check on open ice, spinning into Dupuis and taking him out at the knees - going down immediately and nailing the end boards with a thud.
Crosby questioned the validity of the hit, engaging in a spirited discussion with Methot while team trainers attended to Dupuis. " I haven't seen the replay. I don't know how low it was. He almost blew my knee out so it was pretty low," Crosby said. "I don't know if it was right above my knee or above my hip, but it was awfully close."
Methot waved off allegations of a dirty hit, "He wasn't happy about it and I wouldn't be happy either so I don't blame him for coming at me a bit," the physical blue liner said. " I thought it was a clean hit. I've been throwing hip checks my whole career and I'm 6-foot-3 and I don't think I can get much lower than his knees."
"Dupuis going back to Pittsburgh to be re-evaluated. Hoping it's not a severe injury." -Coach Bylsma #Pens
— Pittsburgh Penguins (@penguins) December 24, 2013 The injury was typically described as a lower-body injury, and neither Bylsma nor anyone in the Penguins organization offered any sort of an update to his status, so it should be assumed that Dupuis is day-to-day until the Panguins say otherwise.http://www.sportsinjuryalert.com/2013/12/pascal-dupuis-suffers-knee-injury-in.html
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