Vincent Lecavalier has run into some bad luck ever
since the Philadelphia Flyers signed him to a $22.5 million, 5- year
deal this summer.
On Sunday, the club announced that he will miss up to a month with a non- displaced fracture in his lower back.
"He had an x-ray in Dallas and we found something on the x-ray that
didn't look right. [We] got him back to Philadelphia this morning just
to get him back in our own doctor's hands and he had an MRI," said
Flyers GM Paul Holmgren. "We found a non-displaced fracture in his lower
back. We're going to treat it when we can as aggressively as we have to
right now. We told him to rest for a few days to get some of the
discomfort out and we'll go from there."
Lecavalier missed his
third straight game on Saturday, a 5-1 setback to the Stars in Dallas,
due to what was originally deemed to be back spasms.
The native
of Montreal is the co-leader on the Flyers with nine goals and tied for
third in points with 14 over 22 games this season.
The Orange and Black have two games remaining on their current six-game road trip: on Monday in Ottawa and on Wednesday in front of a national audience in Chicago against the defending Stanley Cup champion Blackhawks.
At minimum, the 33-year-old won't be back until close to New Year's Eve, when the club embarks on another edition of a holiday Western road swing.
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