Flyers' Briere to have eye surgery

Flyers center Danny Briere will undergo corrective eye surgery on Tuesday, according to club General Manager Paul Holmgren.

Dr. Michael W. Fung, from Society Hill Ophthalmic Associates, will be performing the surgery at Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia.

“The procedure is called PRK (photorefractive keratectomy) and takes about seven minutes per eye,” said Dr. Fung. “He will see results fairly quickly, but the difference between PRK versus LASIK is that the visual outcome will take a few weeks before he gets to his final visual outcome as opposed to LASIK where he would be seeing better in a couple of days."

“There were times during the games this season it was kind of annoying when I was wearing contact lenses,” said Briere. “They would get dry and start to bother me a little bit sitting on the bench. They told me it was a safe procedure and would be safe to play hockey so I am going to get it done.”

Flyers left wing Simon Gagne had the same procedure performed by Dr. Fung on May 5. “He is doing really well,” said Dr. Fung of Gagne. “He is seeing most of the 20/20 letters without glasses or contacts at this point and he is about a week or week and a half out.”