Philadelphia Flyers beat reporter Tim Panaccio has been on the shelf for over a month now. When the Flyers were in Montreal on Feb. 19 to take on the Canadiens, a pretty awful injury befell him:
Slipped on icy Montreal pavement - dual fractures and ligament tear of right ankle. Going on IR today, surgery folllows
— Tim Panaccio (@tpanotchCSN) February 19, 2016
Claude Giroux might very well be hoping he doesn't get better any time soon, though. Quote G following his overtime heroics against the Jets:
"Since Tim Panaccio got a lower body injury, we started playing better.