Bryzgalov has chip fracture
Ilya Bryzgalov was limping for a reason in the Flyers' locker room on Monday night. And it wasn't because of the Flyers' crushing loss to Tampa Bay.
Bryzgalov has chip fracture
Ilya Bryzgalov was limping for a reason in the Flyers’ locker room on Monday night.
And it wasn’t because of the Flyers’ crushing loss to Tampa Bay.
The Flyers announced on Tuesday afternoon that Bryzgalov has a chip fracture in his right foot. According to general manager Paul Holmgren, Bryzgalov is day-to-day.
Holmgren said the Flyers hope Bryzgalov is ready to return to practice on Friday and play this weekend.
"We don't think this is a serious injury," Holmgren said on a conference call with reporters.
At the very least, the Flyers said Bryzgalov, 31, will be unavailable for the Flyers’ matchup in Toronto on Thursday night. As such, Sergei Bobrovsky will make just his second start since Feb. 12 at the Air Canada Centre.
Jason Bacashihua will be re-called from Adirondack to serve as Bobrovsky's backup.
Perhaps Bryzgalov's injury, if it is not serious, may not be such a bad thing if he is able to return to form before the regular season ends. He had started 19 of the Flyers' last 20 games - and with the Flyers likely locked into the East's 5th spot - was due a rest soon anyway.
The Flyers' hope, though, is that Bryzgalov's injury doesn't shake him out of his rhythm. He is 10-2-1 in the month of March with a .946 save percentage.
TIMONEN TO REST: Buried with the big injury news, the Flyers also announced that Kimmo Timonen will miss Thursday's game in Toronto as part of a planned maintenance schedule for his chronic lower-back issues.
Timonen, 36, collected his 400th career assist on Monday night. A closer inspection of the ice time reveals that Timonen did skate in a monster 3 minute and 5 second shift to end the game.
Timonen's 248-game ironman streak was snapped in Washington earlier in the month, as he went on to miss 5 games (from March 4-13) with the same injury.
The Flyers will re-call Marc-Andre Bourdon, who is finally healthy in his own right, to make the trip to Toronto. They will have seven defensemen on the trip, including Andreas Lilja, who is day-to-day with his own “upper-body” injury. If Lilja can play against Toronto, Holmgren said the Flyers will then decide to reassign either Erik Gustafsson or Bourdon back to Adirondack.
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UGHHHHHHHH!!!!!! Injuries to our key players have been a nightmare this season! Just when we have a goalie playing up to his abilities and he gets hurt....frustrating....— TNFlyerNut- What is a 'chip fracture'? Did he drop a bag of Herr's on his foot?— Ohmy
- Nice one...
— thegamepa - Well now we get to see if BOB has any rust if he has any lets hope it isn't too bad....LETS GO FLYERS!!!!!— srcdaddy1216
- Typical— jl4045801
- "Could be a fracture" Dr. Beeper— Joe Lis lives
- When has Holmgren ever been forthright with injuries, the NHL should fine Homer for being such a BSer when it comes to identifying injuries.— Fabulous
- you don't watch a lot of hockey obviously. no GM's give forthright info on their players' injuries. they give the minimum information the NHL accepts. the info homer gives is no different than any other team gives. it's a physical sport, they don't want players targeting injured areas. period. you may not like it, but no one cares.
- For 54 million, he better duct tape his foot and play...— barry1757
Comment removed.- he'll be alright when my son was two he a had a fractured leg that he walked around on for a whole day & half after he had an accident without so much as crying i saw he had a limp that wasn't going away so I took him to the hospital to have him checked out. I my self played goal with a fractured ankle in a junior tournament. it actually felt better when I had the skate on it.— mos19delta
- c'mon....you don't know that..probably completely different....apples and oranges...your backyard hockey is in now way even closely similar to NHL hockey and the rigors that one goes through... please voluntarily retract your statement...makes the whole city some dumb — mdog13
- This is a HUMANGOUS loss to our Cup hopes...typical— JBurns9836
- At this point just sit him for the time being. last thing we need is to rush him back and have him be injured still in the playoffs. No matter what we do rest of season, its not going to affect our playoff spot too much.— KingOfPhilly
- When i first read this , I thought it said Hip fracture , But Chips are better esp . Herr's ...— ingy9
