Chirps from Center Ice

Just when you think we have hit max capacity in the injury bug department….

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More here, straight on from the man himself regarding Payerl, who is now shelved for at least three months.

I’ll have to go back in the AHL archive to last Saturday night’s game in Hershey to see when exactly Payerl was injured. It could have been in the fight with Hershey captain Dane Byers at the end of the first period, and the adrenaline just was too much for Payerl to notice it at the time. But, Payerl later took a high sticking penalty in the second period and was on the ice for the overtime goal scored against, so I am thinking that it is most likely an aggravation of something that’s been ailing him.

Payerl was injured when he was sent to Wheeling last season and was out for a period of time. So maybe it’s a re-aggrivation of whatever that was.

I’m not a doctor, but normally when you set a three month disability on someone, there is surgery involved. But let the speculation end there.

The Penguins have skipped town, bussing to Toronto tonight, where they will fly to St. John’s tomorrow. Hopefully no Penguins have a serious bout with airsickness en route to “The Rock.”