NY Post · Mar 1, 2017
Deep ankle gash will keep Dan Girardi out ‘around two weeks’
Just in case that right side of the defense didn’t look bad enough, the Rangers played Tuesday night’s 4-1 loss to the league-leading Capitals at the Garden without Dan Girardi and Kevin Klein.
Girardi is supposed to be out “around two weeks,” according to coach Alain Vigneault, with a deep gash on the inside of his right ankle that just won’t heal. He was hurt while blocking a shot Feb. 7, and although it was stitched up and he missed the next two games, the wound never healed properly although he had played the previous seven contests before Tuesday.
“Still a big hole there,” Vigneault said, “and our doctors feel that we need to shut him down.”