Flyers' Michael Raffl Leaves Avalanche Game With Apparent Lower-body Injury

Another forward went down for the Flyers Monday night.

And it didn't look good.

Play was stopped during the second period at the Wells Fargo Center as Michael Raffl stayed down on two knees in front of the Avalanche net after being checked into the back boards.

He was helped off by head trainer Jim McCrossin and couldn't put weight on his left leg.

There was no immediate word on the injury.

The fourth-line left winger played 6:44 before exiting. He is one of the team's key role forwards who plays big penalty-kill minutes and is strong on the puck. 

The Flyers are already without winger James van Riemsdyk, who was ruled out Oct. 8 for five to six weeks because of a lower-body injury. An upper-body injury also kept center Nolan Patrick out for three games from Oct. 13-18.

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If Raffl misses any time, the Flyers currently have two extra centers in Corban Knight and Mikhail Vorobyev, who are both capable of playing winger.

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