SF. LOUIS – The attacker St. Louis Blues Dylan Holloway returned to the team’s practice facility on Wednesday and appeared to be recovering from a serious injury a day after being hit in the neck of a puck and leaving the ice on a stretcher against the Tampa Bay Lightning.

“I feel good today, I feel a lot better,” Holloway said. “As soon as I got hit, I knew something was wrong, but then I saw that I got a two-on-one, so I couldn’t miss this opportunity. But as soon as I got on the bench I felt a bit dizzy and then I didn’t remember much from there until I was on the stretcher next to the ambulance.”

The game was stopped with 1:11 left in the first period for a hard hitting penalty that was later overturned when medical staff from both teams began tending to Holloway before he was taken off the ice.

“I was more in shock, like I wasn’t really sure what happened and I was a little nauseous,” Holloway said. “They gave me some medicine and once I realized what was really going on, I started to calm down and feel better.”

Holloway was released from a hospital in the St. Louis around 11 p.m. Tuesday and was told to refrain from physical activity for 24 hours.

Blues coach Drew Bannister said there’s a chance Holloway will be back in the lineup in time for the team’s next game Thursday night against Utah.

“I don’t want to get too far ahead of us here. We’re less than 12 hours away from what that injury was, so we’ll take it day by day with him and see how he feels tomorrow, but today is a good day for us.”

Holloway’s parents, Bruce and Torrie, attended the match and accompanied him to the hospital.

“It’s definitely hard to know they were looking at it,” Holloway said. “But in the end, having them there is so much better. They’re staying with me so I got to talk to them last night and it’s definitely nice to have some company around.”

Holloway said he was getting score updates from his mother as the Blues came back from a 1-0 deficit to beat Tampa Bay 3-2.

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