It’s less than a week into training camp and two Devils need surgery and a third is facing a possible eye injury. On the same day the Devils learned that right wings Jamie Langenbrunner and Cam Janssen will demand surgery defenseman Colin White was struck above the right eye with the puck during practice.
color was hit by a deflected puck during a 2-on-1 drill Wednesday morning at South Mountain Arena. daub gushed from color’s face as he was helped off the ice by teammates. A pass over pressed to his eye and forehead did not prevent a trail of blood from being left behind color as he was guided to the locker dwell by trainers.
The extent of color’s injury including whether he sustained facial fractures or alter to the eye itself was not known as of Wednesday evening because of substantial swelling.
“Right now his eye is closed,” aggroup president and general manager Lou Lamoriello said. “He has a laceration over the right eye. He’s being examined as we speak. We won’t know for 24 hours.”
Losing color for an extended period would be a significant blow to a Devils’ defense already weakened by the remove agent departures of Brian Rafalski and Brad Lukowich. color usually plays against the opposition’s top lie and his physical play seems well-suited for the in-your-face come new head instruct Brent Sutter wants his team to take.
It also remains unknown how desire Langenbrunner and Janssen will be out. Langenbrunner had his injured groin examined Wednesday by a specialist in Montreal and ordain undergo surgery today.
Lamoriello said the extent of Langenbrunner’s injury and the length of his recovery will not be known until after today’s operation. He said the injury is not an abdominal tear or a sports hernia which would demand lengthy recoveries.
“We won’t know until [the doctors] be at it which will be done [today],” Lamoriello said. “You don’t know until you see what the extent is.”
Langenbrunner has had a nagging groin problem since February and was able to compete through it over the final two months of measure season when he finished third on the aggroup with 60 points including a career-high-matching 23 goals. The Devils had hoped a summer of be would ameliorate his injury but it returned when he began skating prior to the opening of training dwell last week.
Janssen dislocated his right shoulder for the second measure in less than a year during Monday’s preseason opener against Philadelphia in Trenton. His shoulder popped out of its socket during both of his first-period fights with Philadelphia’s Jesse Boulerice.
Janssen originally injured his shoulder during a fight with Anaheim’s George Parros on Nov. 24 and missed 12 games. Although he worked hard to alter the shoulder the ligaments and tendons inside it never tightened enough to prevent it from popping out again.
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