And Hejduk has hardly been noticeable since Bobby Holik blindsided him with a ferocious shoulder check to the head late in Game 4. Asked if he was still feeling any effects from Holik's hit, Hejduk said today, "No, I feel all right".
There's something about tap-dancing routines that makes everything feel all right.
The group played Bob Marley's "One Love," the message of "Let's get together and feel all right" blaring from the speakers.
The contradictions of his biography were translated into a hugely seductive global metaphor for struggle and unity: "Let's get together and feel all right".
With rhymes as adventurous as "mixed-up girls" and "mixed-up worlds", or "go out tonight" and "feel all right", the Stylophone-wielding Ms Boots is no Joni Mitchell, but that doesn't seem to put anyone off.
With its wincing chorus ("I can change, I can change, I can change, if it helps you fall in love") and defeated implorations ("Dance with me until I feel all right"), the song plays like an actual last gasp: one final swing at transcendence before settling into a version of adulthood that resembles — from afar, at least — resignation.
On their second album, "Release Me" (Downtown), they're backdated and riled up, playing 1960s equipment and coming up with songs that give errant boyfriends what they deserve: "If I could smack some sense into his senses I might feel all right".
As the clock ticked out on the Commonwealth Games netball bronze medal match on Sunday, the sound of Bob Marley's "One Love" came booming over the public address system and the Jamaican netball squad – substitutes and all – needed no second invitation to get together and feel all right as they rushed on court to enjoy a celebratory huddle.
Indeed, if you find yourself repeating the phrase "I feel all right" this many times, with such strangled passion, over a rusticated, circular riff caught in an ever-decaying orbit, then the chances are you don't feel very all right, actually.
It has cropped up in a spate of movies, television shows and popular songs, including "This Hotel Room," by Steve Goodman, in which Jimmy Buffett sang: "Put in a quarter / Turn out the light / Magic Fingers makes you feel all right".
