The one defenseman we all couldn't stand to see injured...is now officially injured.
On Tuesday afternoon, the Flyers announced that Kimmo Timonen will miss the club's remaining three games with a broken right foot.
Timonen was the only member of the defensive corps to play in all 45 games this season, but with no possibility of the postseason in order to try and play through the issue, the charade was wisely dropped.
The Flyers have only three games remaining on the schedule, starting with tonight's game against the Boston Bruins -- one which sees the return of Jaromir Jagr to Philadelphia.
The 38-year-old completed his 14th NHL season with five goals and 29 points along with a plus-3 rating. He has one more year remaining on his deal, a $6 million extension, for next year before it's presumed he will leave North America.
His exclusion leaves Kurtis Foster and Luke Schenn as the only remaining blueliners to have not suffered some kind of debilitating injury during the truncated 2013 schedule.
But help is apparently on the way, as Paul Holmgren decided to recall Andreas Lilja from the Adirondack Phantoms. That was the big piece of news before the Timonen story broke, and the pieces appeared to fit.
Nonetheless, Matt Konan, who was recalled from Glens Falls yesterday along with three of his Phantoms' teammates, is still awaiting his NHL debut, which still could occur in any of the final three outings.
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