Marc Staal (eye) was relieved by how he performed in Monday's exhibition contest. "You can tell yourself all summer long that you feel good and are ready to go, but to actually go out there and feel comfortable, I'm really happy with it," Staal said. "There was no comparison to the way I felt when I came back for that one playoff game." He ended up logging 21:56 minutes in the contest. As Staal later put it, it's a "first step," but it's very encouraging after he suffered a serious eye injury when he was struck by the puck on March 5.