Trotz maintained Orpik is “day-to-day.”

“I still have to do some stuff with the doctors just to make sure everything is going all right,” Orpik said. “That’ll happen in the next couple of days. But it was a good step getting back on the ice.”

Orpik said he felt a “little rusty, as expected” in practice on Tuesday. He was checked into the glass by center Ryan White in Game 3 and then immediately crumpled to the ice. He looked dazed and had to be helped back to the locker room, and when Trotz was later asked if Orpik has a concussion, he declined to answer the question. Team policy prevents players from disclosing their injuries.

“It was just one of those ones I didn’t see it coming,” Orpik said of the hit. “If I saw it coming, probably nothing comes of it. I’ve been hit a lot harder than that and been fine. I think it’s just bad luck.”

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When the playoffs started, Orpik was paired with John Carlson. He missed 40 games during the regular season because of a lower-body injury, and in that span, the Capitals lost just six regulation games. Taylor Chorney played that entire stretch, and he had one goal and five assists and was a plus-eight. Washington inserted Chorney in the first two games Orpik missed against the Flyers, but the Capitals turned to Mike Weber in Game 6 against the Flyers.