- Seth Jarvis had shoulder surgery and will miss four to six months, GM Eric Tulsky said Friday
- The recovery could push into the start of next season for Carolina’s leading goal scorer
- Read below for what Tulsky said and the Eric Robinson knee surgery update
The Hurricanes will open their title defense without their leading goal scorer.
General manager Eric Tulsky said Friday at the NHL Draft in Buffalo that Seth Jarvis had shoulder surgery and will be out roughly four to six months. That timeline could stretch into the start of next season.
Walt Ruff of the Hurricanes relayed the news straight from Tulsky’s media availability:
The procedure cleaned up a problem Jarvis had been playing through for a long time. He dealt with labrum and rotator-cuff trouble in his right shoulder going back to at least 2023-24, leaning on rehab and strengthening to get through it.
Tulsky was asked about the call to finally operate.
“Shoulders are tough,” Tulsky said. “Once it goes, you can keep aggravating it and it can limit what you can do and it’s tough. And eventually it needs to be repaired.”
Jarvis played through all of it and still led Carolina with 32 goals in 71 games. He added four more in the playoffs, including the overtime one-timer that won Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final against Vegas and turned the series around on the way to a championship parade through Raleigh.
Watch the goal that’s now riding on a surgically repaired shoulder:
Eric Robinson is on the mend too. Tulsky said the fourth-line forward had knee surgery with a six-to-eight week recovery, and no other Hurricanes are scheduled to go under the knife after the two-month playoff run.
Jarvis is locked into Carolina long term, so the question is when, not if. A four-month recovery lands him back near opening night. Six months drags it toward December.
