A recent tweet from Larry Brooks of the New York Post reports that Rangers forward Vinny Prospal will miss anywhere between 10 days and three weeks due to a knee injury. The exact wording was that the 34-year-old winger/center will be having his knee 'scoped', which research tells me is a minor surgery which makes a small incision and repairs damage to the joint. So my guess would be that Vinny has been having discomfort in the joint/knee area lately, and it is likely at the point where it is worth fixing.
Recovery time will determine whether he returns in the ten days or if it will take him deep into January for things to be good to go, but nonetheless, this is not good news for the Rangers. Prospal is currently the second-leading scorer on the team with eight goals and 24 assists for a combined 32 points. Vinny has also been star winger Marian Gaborik's partner in crime all season long--I do not foresee Gaborik being affected by this, but I am not going to make definite predictions here. Prospal has played in all 38 games so far this season, not missing one, but that will obviously change with him undergoing this upcoming surgery.
No other sources have confirmed this just yet, but usually Brooks is right on with announcements such as this one. I am sure it will begin to spread around the net once one of coach John Tortorella or GM Glen Sather confirm.
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