May 8: Meszaros (back surgery) expected to play in Game 5 vs. NJD (updates in post 1)
MARCH 4:
CSN (Twitter):
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Kimmo Timonen and Andrej Meszaros are out indefinitely with lower-body injuries. Kimmo's Iron Man streak ends at 248 games.
MARCH 16:
Kubina's injury has been limited to "upper body." Holmgren has said it is unrelated to the puck-to-the-face injury which required stitches March 4 at Washington. Kubina played the following game vs. Detroit but not since.
MESZAROS OUT 6-8 WEEKS
With a complete day off from practice today for the Flyers, general manager Paul Holmgren gave an injury update regarding several players.
The most significant news to come out of the update was to defenseman Andrej Meszaros.
"Andrej Meszaros will undergo surgery to remove a small disc fragment in his lower back on Wednesday, March 21," announced Holmgren. "Surgery will be performed by Dr Alex Vaccaro at Thomas Jefferson Hospital. Andrej will be out 6-8 weeks."
Meszaros had been sidelined for the last nine games. He recorded 25 points (7G-18A) appearing in 62 out of Flyers first 63 games of the season.
Last season, Meszaros appeared in 81 of 82 games for the Flyers, posting eight goals and 32 points and 42 penalty minutes. He recorded a plus-minus rating of plus-30, which tied for the team lead while averaging 21:07 of time-on-ice per game. He was also awarded the Barry Ashbee Trophy as the team's most outstanding defenseman.
During the off-season, Meszaros underwent surgery to repair cartilage in his right wrist.
In addition to Meszaros, Holmgren announced that defenseman Pavel Kubina and forward Max Talbot are day-to-day with upper-body injuries, while defenseman Andreas Lilja is day-to-day with a throat injury.
Heading into tomorrow's game vs. Florida, the Flyers have had 361 man-games lost this season due to injury or illness, 115 of which have been by defensemen.
APRIL 21:
From Tim P.:
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flyers sources tell me Meszaros is estimated 3 weeks from playing. They could use him now
Lower body? Any word on when these injuries occured? Meszaros had arguably his best game of the season against the Islanders, so it must have happened in practice for him? Maybe his knee? Kimmo has been nursing injury for a while now, but this must be something recent as well. When will this team finally get some good luck??
Lets hope it's nothing serious for either of them... Meszaros has been solid of late.
Ugh... seriously, why do teams like the Rangers avoid the injury bug practically all year, while teams like the Flyers and Penguins have had so many guys go down I'd like to see how well the supposed 'elite' Rangers would do if they lost Gaborik, Girardi, Callahan etc for extended periods. Is it good luck, or are these guys poorly conditioned?
Lets hope it's nothing serious for either of them... Meszaros has been solid of late.
Ugh... seriously, why do teams like the Rangers avoid the injury bug practically all year, while teams like the Flyers and Penguins have had so many guys go down I'd like to see how well the supposed 'elite' Rangers would do if they lost Gaborik, Girardi, Callahan etc for extended periods. Is it good luck, or are these guys poorly conditioned?
Some injuries are freakish (Pronger) some are a matter of composite over time (probably what happened with Timonen).
Timonen's injury situation, to my memory, began in the Winter Classic but that was a wrist. It was supposedly aggravated in the following game against Chicago. At one point, he wore a brace.
Ugh... seriously, why do teams like the Rangers avoid the injury bug practically all year, while teams like the Flyers and
Umm, have you considered age and other factors?
It's obvious why. Luck has nothing to so with it: Pronger is not only old but has played rough all his career, so everyone knows he would break down by this age.
And I personally have been sounding the alarm about Timo's age and his playing time (having to compensate for Pronger's absence) for awhile now.
The 'backbone' of our D are two oldsters who are both very near the end. So whaddaya expect?
Why? I knew it would happen. Look at Pronger's age and look at Timo's age and connect the dots.
Then what about Mez? Also, Pronger's injury is not age related. A concussion is not age related. You make it sound like age is the reason he's hurt. Jagr was having groin problems but he's been looking good of late. Lidstrom is old and doing well, so is Selanne and so was Recchi before he retired. The age thing is ********. It's a state of mind and if you keep in shape and keep playing the way you play, age doesn't matter.
