PHOENIX – Calamity avoided.

Telling The Post that the injury he suffered in San Jose on Friday night was a “very, very, very mild concussion; a real minor one,” Eric Lindros yesterday morning said he had been headache- and symptom-free since Sunday afternoon.

“I feel fine today; I’ve felt fine since [Sunday] afternoon,” Lindros said before his teammates went onto the ice for their morning skate. “The doctors have said that I have to be symptom-free for 24 hours before I can do anything, so we’re just waiting for the afternoon before I can ride the bike and work out.”

Lindros, who left the match against the Sharks after the first period and who missed Saturday’s game in L.A. and last night’s here against the Coyotes, said that he hopes to play in Edmonton tomorrow.

“That’s what I’m hoping,” Lindros, who worked out during last night’s game, said.

“But I’m going to listen to what the doctors tell me and follow their orders.”

Lindros said that the Rangers’ medical trainer, Jim Ramsay, is consulting with Drs. Karen Johnston in Montreal and James Kelly in Chicago, noted neurological specialists who have previously examined him and had authorized his 2001-2002 return to the league.

“Rammer will tell me what to do,” he said.

Lindros disputed reports that variously suggested he couldn’t remember the play that caused the concussion, that he had been injured accidentally, colliding with a teammate, or that it had happened on a late cross-check.

“I know exactly when it happened and I knew it at the time. It was that center-ice hit with [Mark] Smith,” Lindros said, referring to the open-ice collision he himself initiated 3:30 into the match. “I’ve been through this before, so I know how I feel and should feel after a hit.

“Things just had a darker look. I knew I was a bit off and as the period went on, when it didn’t get better, I knew it wasn’t right for me to go back out there. But knowing the [lack of] severity of it, I wasn’t scared; it wasn’t a lights-out situation at all. I was just more disappointed than anything.”

Lindros, who spent all day Saturday resting in his hotel room in L.A. and all day Sunday resting and watching television in his hotel room here, later scoffed at the suggestion that his collision with Smith had been a tame one.

“If anyone thinks that was a small hit, we have different ideas,” he said. “That was a pretty major collision.”