A season full of injury and disappointment for Philadelphia Flyers star defenseman Chris Pronger could be capped off with yet another surgery.
According to Sam Carchidi of Philly.com:
Pronger, 36, expects to learn from a doctor on Tuesday if he needs surgery for a possible herniated disk in his back. That would be his fourth surgical procedure in about 10 months.
Pronger wasn’t sure how he suffered the injury, but said that he started to feel pain in Game 7 of the conference quarterfinals against Buffalo. In the semifinals, he played in Game 1 against Boston but was laboring and was minus-3 in the game.
The pain, Pronger said, grew worse with each passing day. He missed the last three games of the Boston series.
Pronger, who has six years remaining on his contract, had minor knee surgery on July 27 and missed the beginning of the season; he also had foot and hand surgery during the season.
The 17-year veteran defenseman battled injuries throughout the 2010-2011 season. He returned to the lineup in Game 6 of the Flyers first round series against the Buffalo Sabres after being sidelined since March 8 due to a broken right hand.
After playing Games 6 and 7 against the Sabres, and Game 1 against the Bruins, Pronger missed the remainder of the series due to a “lower-body injury.”
Pronger played in just 50 regular season games during the 2010-2011 season. It was his lowest total since 2002-03 with St. Louis and third-lowest in his 17-year career.
Without Pronger in the lineup the Flyers season ended in disappointment by being swept out of the second round of the playoffs by the Boston Bruins.
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