Taylor Hall was originally slated to return from injury, a two-week, five-game absence, to the Carolina Hurricanes lineup on Oct. 27 against the Boston Bruins.

However, five minutes into practice that morning, he left the ice and would be once again ruled out, proceeding to miss an additional week with what coach Rod Brind'Amour at the time clarified was a new injury.

Hall eventually did return to the lineup on Nov. 5, a 5-3 win for the Hurricanes over the New York Islanders, but it was shocking that the veteran wound up missing a total of nine games.

Once the team returned home though, Hall clarified to the media exactly what happened.

"I got tennis elbow from... I don't even know what from," Hall said Saturday morning. "My original injury is more than healed and I was ready to go from that and then I just really had some elbow issues. Kind of had to wear one of those forearm bands that I see the gentlemen at my golf course wearing. It feels a lot better now, but for a couple days there, it was kind of debilitating and I didn't realize that that injury could do that. But I'm good now and I'm excited to keep playing."

The veteran forward played just 10:30 in his first game back, taking 14 shifts in total, and you could definitely tell he had missed a significant portion of time.

"[I felt] a little rusty," Hall said. "I thought I had some good plays and I thought I had some bad ones. It was a fast game. I thought the speed of the game was pretty high. It won't take long to get back up to speed with the way we play and the way I need to play. I know what's expected and I'm excited to keep going."

"We know what he's capable of," said Carolina coach Rod Brind'Amour. "That was a little bit of a rough game just with having been out for a long time. It takes a little while to get your flow back and we hadn't really practiced. A little bit unfair there, but you have to get him going. When he's going and doing what he does, it balances our lines really well and gives us another threat, for sure."

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