Injury Report: JVR has a broken right index finger, out 4-to-6 weeks (Mar. 4); March 31 update posted

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

Van Riemsdyk of Flyers breaks hand in win against Capitals

WASHINGTON -- James van Riemsdyk broke his right hand blocking a shot in the Philadelphia Flyers' 5-2 win against the Washington Capitals at Capital One Arena on Wednesday.

Flyers coach Alain Vigneault said he didn't know yet how long van Riemsdyk, a forward, will be out.

Van Riemsdyk was struck in the hand by a shot from Capitals defenseman Jonas Siegenthaler with 9:17 remaining in the first period. After being examined on the bench, van Riemsdyk exited the game.

"There are different breaks," Vigneault said. "But he took that shot right on the tip (of his hand), so I'll find out tomorrow for how long."

Van Riemsdyk has 40 points (19 goals, 21 assists) in 66 games this season.

Vigneault said forward Joel Farabee will be recalled from Lehigh Valley of the American Hockey League before the Flyers play the Carolina Hurricanes at Wells Fargo Center on Thursday (7 p.m. ET; NBCSN, NBCSP, NHL.TV).​

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[Hollywood Cannon]

4-6 weeks probably.

5 weeks from tonight is start of playoffs.

 

[Prongo]

Farabee. You’re up young man. Step on in.

 

[tictactoe]

for crying out loud.

 

[Chinatown88]

Time to set the playoff scoring record for a rookie Farabee.

 

[Jtown]

YES! blessing .... and not even in disguise. Just a pure obvious blessing.

 

[bennysflyers16]

Farabee to 2LW or 3LW and let’s go

 

[Jtown]

Time to set the playoff scoring record for a rookie Farabee.

ville leino laughs at you.

 

[Alex91]

If this is our only injury then it’s do able for the next 5 weeks, but the next injury really starts to eat away at our depth/style of play

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

Obviously Lindblom & Patrick have been out of most if not all of the year to this point with stuff that aren’t your everyday type of injuries.

But we have been relatively healthy in the every day more common variety of injuries to point.

 

[Tripod]

This s why you need 14/15 forwards and 8 Dmen that can play if needed and not be overwhelmed.

 

[Here4ThaLids]

Well, at least James should be able to keep his fitness reasonably high with the bike and non-contact skating. Broken foot would have been worse.

 

[tictactoe]

Well, at least James should be able to keep his fitness reasonably high with the bike and non-contact skating. Broken foot would have been worse.

yeah keep him away from Pats & Geno's.

 

[Young Sandwich]

 

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

4-6 weeks probably.

5 weeks from tonight is start of playoffs.

I remember when the Penguins' Jim Johnson broke Tim Kerr's finger/hand in the 1989 playoffs. Kerr was unstoppable prior, 25 points in 12 PO games. One of the best playoffs any Flyers' forward was having ever. It was so bad, he was pointless against Montreal in the semifinals because of the slash. To this day, I will say that kept the Flyers out of the 1989 Finals. Kerr tried to play with the hand broken but it was impossible to grasp the stick properly. There was an image from the dressing room with how he was soaking in his hand in ice trying to prep. It was one of those "if a picture is worth a thousand words..." moments.

 

[Striiker]

YES! blessing .... and not even in disguise. Just a pure obvious blessing.

Losing JVR is a really bad thing.

 

[Jtown]

Losing JVR is a really bad thing.

For kfc

 

[Tripod]

I told you Farabee would be recalled by the Sabres game.

He should be well rested...only 1 game played the last 11 days.

 

[trostol]

ville leino laughs at you.

ville leino got punched in the head for our sins

 

[Ghosts Beer]

Farabee to 2LW or 3LW and let’s go

Probably starts at line 4 with Nate & NAK, & Raffl with Grant & Potluck.

Then take it from there & adjust if needed.

 

[FlyerNutter]

Funny how life works. This is basically the kid’s shot to force AV into playing him opening night of round 1.

Even though I can hate JVR at times, when he’s on, he’s great. The loss sucks, but have to try and keep this thing moving. Rest up, and back for the dance.

 

[CanadianFlyer88]

Sucks for JVR, but nice to have the depth to recall a player of Farabee's quality instead of slotting in some glorified AHL scrub.

This type of injury would have crushed the team in recent years. This year it is an inconvenience that they have the tools to overcome.

 

[BrindamoursNose]

This s why you need 14/15 forwards and 8 Dmen that can play if needed and not be overwhelmed.

Come on up, Chris Stewart.

 

[flyersjim73]

Unfortunate, but he’ll be back for the Cup run.

 

[Striiker]

Problem is Farabee is replacing someone good instead of one of our many 4th liners.

We should really get Frost up too so we can bump Thompson to 13th forward.