MONTREAL – After undergoing season-ending surgery in March, Jeff Petry is feeling just fine heading into a brand new year.
The 28-year-old defenseman, who recently returned to Montreal from his offseason home in Michigan, says the procedure to repair his sports hernia and his subsequent rehab work went smoothly and didn’t hinder him at all in his efforts to prepare for the 2016-17 campaign.
“It was something that definitely had to be repaired. I was laying low for the first week after surgery, and then we started therapy right away. I was walking in the pool, and then each week after that we’d add some more things and just trained the body to fire the core muscles again,” explained Petry, who rehabbed with the help of the Canadiens’ medical and training staff at the Bell Sports Complex in Brossard until mid-May.