- Briere walked through injuries for 10 Flyers on Thursday after the Round 2 sweep
- Andrae is heading for wrist surgery and Konecny played with a fractured rib and a busted nose
- Read below for the full list and what Briere said about every player
The Flyers got swept in Round 2, and now we know how banged up they were getting there.
GM Danny Briere wrapped up the year Thursday with a presser at the team’s Voorhees facility, and the club released a list of 10 players who were playing through something.
Here’s Briere’s full end-of-season availability:
Travis Konecny played through a fractured rib and a nasal fracture. Cam York and Christian Dvorak each had a fractured rib too, with Dvorak adding a separated shoulder on top.
Garnet Hathaway broke his fibula. Trevor Zegras dealt with an elbow ligament sprain. Alex Bump had an MCL sprain.
Then there’s Emil Andrae, who was a healthy scratch in the playoffs but is now staring at surgery on a fractured wrist. Noah Cates broke his foot in Game 2 against Carolina, which is why he vanished from the lineup against the Hurricanes.
Nikita Grebenkin is the wild card. Briere said the 22-year-old’s upper-body issue hasn’t responded to treatment and he might miss the start of next season.
Briere was asked if any of the injuries are likely to bleed into next year. Grebenkin was the only name he flagged.
“There’s one, maybe Grebenkin, depending on how it goes,” Briere said. “Initially, we thought it was gonna be something short, and it just never got better. Now we’re looking at different options for him. He’s the only one that I would say maybe, if it doesn’t improve.”
Owen Tippett’s absence in Round 2 was its own subplot. The team confirmed his internal bleeding came with a sports hernia or core muscle injury, lining up with the statement he released earlier this week.
Captain Sean Couturier and the rest of the room cleared out their lockers on Tuesday, locking in offseason mode for everyone besides Grebenkin:
Per Briere, everyone else should be back for training camp in September. Four games against the Hurricanes ended it short, which means most of these guys actually get a normal summer to heal.
