| | PHILADELPHIA -- Philadelphia Flyers center Rod Brind'Amour,
whose iron man streak ended when he missed the season opener, had surgery on his broken foot Tuesday and will be out up to two months.
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Brind'Amour had two pins inserted into his left foot
Tuesday after X-rays showed a second fracture. Brind'Amour will wear a cast for four weeks.
With forward Keith
Jones also out for at least a month with a knee injury, general
manager Bob Clarke said he may be looking to make a trade.
"I don't think you can replace Rod Brind'Amour, but it may
cause us to re-evaluate," Clarke said Monday. "If Brind'Amour's
going to miss the next couple of months, or at least a month and
half, and if Jones is going to miss a month and a half, that's two
of our top six or seven forwards out. We may have to re-evaluate
what we're doing."
Brind'Amour sustained a fracture in his foot in a preseason game
and was placed on injured reserve Oct. 2, ending the NHL's longest
current streak at 484 consecutive games. He started skating last
week and thought he was getting better.
But X-rays last Thursday showed a second fracture. Brind'Amour
said doctors told him it wasn't a new injury, but an old one that
didn't show up on the original X-rays. But Clarke questioned
whether Brind'Amour tried to come back too soon.
"With hindsight, I guess you could say there should have been
more caution with Brind'Amour," Clarke said. "But he did follow
what the team was told and what he was told. I guess Rod did go at
it a lot harder and has a lot higher pain threshold than the normal
person, and that may have caused this problem."
Without Brind'Amour, who was supposed to center the team's
second line with Mark Recchi and Simon Gagne, the Flyers are 0-1-1
and scored only one goal in their first two games.
"I've just got to get it fixed," Brind'Amour said. "It's the
type of thing that gets worse with every game that you watch in
terms of being frustrated, but there's nothing I can do about it." | |
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