Nokelainen out of surgery.
A team spokesman confirmed today that Ducks center Petteri Nokelainen had successful surgery yesterday to repair a fracture in his left hand. The injury was suffered early in Game 7 in Detroit. The routine procedure was performed at the Kerlan-Jobe Surgery Center in Los Angeles by Dr. Steve Shin. Nokelainen is expected to be fully recovered for training camp.
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J.P. Hoornstra has been covering the Anaheim Ducks since 2007. Eight months after the University of Wisconsin won its third NCAA hockey championship, he was born in a frigid Madison winter. He betrayed his blue-blooded beginnings by graduating from UCLA in 2003, and welcomes any and all dialogue on the finer points of hockey.
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