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Devils' Zajac likely to miss another month

Thursday, 02.09.2012 / 5:59 PM / News

By Mike G. Morreale - NHL.com Staff Writer

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Devils' Zajac likely to miss another month
There's a good possibility New Jersey center Travis Zajac will be back on the ice within two weeks. Game action will take a little longer.
NEWARK, N.J. -- There's a good possibility New Jersey center Travis Zajac will be back on the ice within two weeks. Game action will take a little longer.
 
According to Devils general manager Lou Lamoriello, Zajac, who has played just eight games this season while recovering from a torn left Achilles' tendon, must build up strength and flexibility in his foot and leg before starting to skate. Only then can he begin working his way back into practicing.
 
"The good news is that it appears it has healed the way it should," Lamoriello told the media hours before his club hosted to the St. Louis Blues at Prudential Center. "In saying that, because he's been off the ice a number of weeks and he hasn't done anything, he has to get certain dimensions of his leg back and his foot. So he'll probably be skating in a little over a week and he probably will not be playing before a month."
 
Zajac was examined in Winnipeg on Wednesday.
 
Zajac tore his Achilles during offseason workouts on Aug. 18 and missed the Devils' first 30 games. He returned to the lineup Dec. 16 and posted a goal and two assists in eight games before leaving the lineup in early January with reoccurring pain in the same area.
 
"We're going to work closely with our trainer, physical therapist and the doctor," Lamoriello said. "The good news is he's fine. Once he skates, he has to go gradually in his skating to get the flexibility that's needed in that area that already had a long time off."
 
Zajac, 26, had played in all 82 games the previous four seasons. He had 13 goals and 31 assists in 2010-11.
 
Lamoriello also said that defensemen Henrik Tallinder (blot clot in leg) and Adam Larsson (bruised lower back) remain "status quo."
 
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