According to Katie Strang of ESPN NY, John Tortorella told reporters today that Michael Sauer has been shut down for a couple of days because of some issues related to skating last week.

Mike Sauer (concussion) shut down for now on both skating and off-ice workouts.

— Andrew Gross (@AGrossRecord) January 23, 2012

The team’s twitter account quotes John Tortorella as saying,”He really hasn’t felt that great after a few days on the ice”