In a dense, 56-game ordinary season, losing any player for an all-inclusive time frame will sting more contrasted with years past.
Losing a Selke Trophy victor for any time in this 2020-21 season? That would be harming.
Sean Couturier left Friday night’s down against the Penguins during the main time frame with a clear shoulder injury and didn’t return. The Flyers’ first-line focus was keep going on the ice around 1:38 into the activity and afterward left the group’s seat presently.
After the Flyers’ 5-2 success, lead trainer Alain Vigneault said Couturier was planned to go through a MRI on his shoulder Saturday.
“I’ll know more in the following couple of days,” Vigneault said. “That is all I have similarly as an update for you at the present time ” Vigneault said.
Couturier was appeared on the NBC Sports Philadelphia broadcast highlighting a region around his correct shoulder while on the seat as he investigated at Flyers head of sports medication Jim McCrossin.
Couturier has won consecutive Bobby Clarke Trophies as the club’s most significant player and brought home the 2019-20 Frank J. Selke Trophy as the NHL’s best protective forward.
The Flyers’ alpha canine down the center isn’t handily kept out of or taken out of games. There aren’t numerous harder than Couturier, who in the first round of the 2018 Stanley Cup Playoffs set up six focuses (four objectives, two helps) over Games 5 and 6 playing on a torn MCL. Last season, as the Flyers attempted to screen his shoulder strain, Couturier fairly subtly still took some faceoffs. Couturier played Game 7 of their second-round exit to the Islanders with a MCL sprain.
Friday night was Game 2 of 56 for the Flyers, so maybe the club was deciding in favor of alert with shielding Couturier from returning. Stay tuned.
Morgan Frost, a skilled focus prospect, is the club’s thirteenth forward. He would probably enter the arrangement if Couturier is to miss any time.
