"David Backes returned late [Saturday] night with the team. He did meet with our doctors, and they reevaluated the cut. They did some work on it. Obviously, you've got great medical care down in Tampa; we're thankful for that, but our guys wanted their own hands and eyes on it," said Sweeney. "A timetable hasn't been set for him.
"You can imagine it was a pretty significant cut, and now that it's been, sort of, re-cleaned and addressed accordingly, we'll just let nature take its course, let it heal. I don't have a definitive timetable on that one, certainly not day to day. I would suspect he'll be out for a couple games, and then we'll reevaluate."
