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Source: Flyers.com

Flyers forward Sami Kapanen will miss the next 10 weeks after injuring his right shoulder. Kapanen will have surgery next week to repair the shoulder. Below are comments from Flyers General Manager Bob Clarke as well as Kapanen.

Bob Clarke

?Sami last week had a collision with one of our players when they were fooling around. He hurt his shoulder and had an MRI performed on him yesterday. The results were that he?s got a slap tear, they call that, and a partial thickness tear of his rotator cuff. He?ll have surgery early next week, and will miss approximately 10 weeks from the date of surgery.

?Sami is going to see [Flyers team physician Dr. Peter DeLuca] this afternoon, and it looks like they?ll do it on Tuesday.?

Sami Kapanen

?I guess it was about three or four weeks back. I think I kind of fell down on my shoulder. I can?t even finger point any hits in the past, I don?t know how many weeks we?ve been skating. It?s been sore ever since then. I still have been able to do the scrimmages and all that, but I guess it?s time to fix it.?

On having the option to have the surgery:
?I think there?s a couple weeks now where we don?t play any regular season games, so it kind of shortens up the time you?re going to miss in the season. I think it?s better to fix it now than to try and play with a bad shoulder and get to the point where it needs to be fixed in the middle of the season and be in a bad spot going into the playoffs.?

On it being frustrating, after having missed last season:
?It?s not just that. I just got my knee fixed over the summer and I?ve been rehabbing almost two months with that. I finally, last month, have been feeling really good skating wise, and feel like I?m in good shape I?m just anxious to get back with the new signings and the new rules. Being away from the game for a year, adding all of those up and not being able to play in the next couple months is going to be hard.?

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well hopefully he will be ready to go once he is healed up . suck he had to get hurt now . lets just hope he doest' have any other injurys this season

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Posted on Thu, Sep. 15, 2005

Kapanen to undergo shoulder surgery Tuesday

By Tim Panaccio

INQUIRER STAFF WRITER


Incredibly, the Flyers have been stricken with another injury and it had nothing to do with training camp.

Right wing Sami Kapanen will undergo surgery Tuesday at Pennsylvania Hospital to repairs torn cartilage in his right shoulder and will be lost for at least 10 weeks.

Kapanen said he isn't sure, but he thinks he injured the shoulder nearly a month ago during a player scrimmage on his own when he fell to the ice.

Kapanen, Peter Forsberg (bursa sac surgery) and Derian Hatcher (torn left knee ligaments) have all suffered injuries outside of training camp.

"It was about three or four weeks back, I fell down," he said. "That has to be the one because I can't fingerpoint anything in the past three-four weeks of skating. It's been sore ever since then but I was still able to do the scrimmages."

Some days it hurt, some days he had no symptoms and the medical staff believed it was nothing more than a bruise. Trainer Jim McCrossin suspected something worse when Kapanen's physical showed he was losing strength in the shoulder. An MRI taken at Pennsylvania Hospital on Wednesday showed torn cartilage.


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Originally Posted by: vill_chouine

I tried to merge to post and it didn;t work so well , so I re-edited