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Additional x-rays on Ryan Carter have revealed a fracture in his right foot. The center, who was initially diagnosed with a bruise after being hit with the puck during the Ducks' morning skate last Thursday in Columbus, will be out approximately four additional weeks.
The 26-year-old had a goal and two assists in 13 games prior to the injury.
Erik Christensen, in an interview with the Winnipeg Sun, talks about his conditioning assignment with the AHL's Manitoba Moose, as well as the state of the Ducks.
Christensen went unclaimed after he was placed on waivers Nov. 2, then rode the pine until centers Saku Koivu and Ryan Carter went down with injuries, forcing the Ducks to use Christensen for three games on last week's road trip.
"It's tough, at one point the team is willing to lose you and the next, they need you and they're willing to put you in the lineup," Christensen told the paper. "I thought I played well in the three games I was in (after clearing waivers) but Anaheim is at the bottom of the Western Conference standings. Changes are probably inevitable down there."
Head coach Randy Carlyle disagreed specifically with Christensen's self-evaluation after practice Friday, saying "we thought we had Christensen for a couple games to give him an opportunity, but we didn't think that worked very well." Christensen was available to the Ducks in the road finale Monday in Pittsburgh, but Carlyle opted to shuffle the forward lines and play defenseman Sheldon Brookbank on the fourth line instead.
Already missing forwards Saku Koivu and Ryan Carter, left wing Joffrey Lupul sat out the Ducks' practice Friday with an undisclosed lower-body injury.
"Just some soreness," Lupul said. "I kind of know the drill. I don't want to get into it too much, but it's some soreness in my lower body. Hopefully it can be taken care of tomorrow."
Lupul said the injury is not related to the recurring back stiffness that sidelined him in the preseason, but "wouldn't rule myself out for tomorrow."
Continue reading Lupul adds to Ducks' injury woes..
Center MacGregor Sharp has been recalled from the Bakersfield Condors, the Ducks' ECHL affiliate, while centers Saku Koivu and Ryan Carter have been placed on injured reserve retroactive to their last appearance -- Nov. 11 for Carter and Nov. 7 for Koivu.
The 24-year-old Sharp ranked second on the Condors in points (14) and first in assists (10) through 15 games at the time of his recall. Signed as an undrafted free agent to a two-year entry-level contract on Mar. 31, Sharp finished tied for fourth in the nation last season with 50 points (26 goals) in 43 games with the University of Minnesota-Duluth.
Sharp also ranked second in the country in goals.
Koivu has been battling a groin injury, while Carter is recovering from a bruised foot. Both would be eligible to play tomorrow against the Tampa Bay Lightning.
Petteri Nokelainen probably summed it up best.
"I play with whoever they put me out to play with," he said, "Right now it looks like we're playing with everybody right now, especially when we're two guys short in the middle."
Those two guys -- centers Saku Koivu and Ryan Carter -- didn't take part in a full practice Tuesday with their teammates. Koivu at least attempted to start, after skating for a half-hour on his own, but lasted about 15 minutes before walking off the ice. Carter, who bruised his foot in Columbus when it absorbed a teammate's shot in practice, didn't skate at all.
Continue reading The latest on the Ducks' injuries, and how they're affecting the lineup..
Ducks radio analyst Dan Wood, writing on the team's official Web site, says that Kyle Calder is likely to make his debut in a Ducks uniform tonight in Pittsburgh.
Centers Ryan Carter and Saku Koivu (who has a strained groin, according to Randy Carlyle) are expected to miss the game, according to the report.
The Ducks recalled Matt Beleskey from AHL San Antonio today after placing forward Ryan Carter (foot) on injured reserve. Beleskey practiced at Honda Center with teammates this morning, skating at left wing with Petteri Nokelainen at center and Todd Marchant at right wing.
Carter's foot was struck by a puck Wednesday and he did not practice Friday. Head coach Randy Carlyle said that an MRI revealed a bone bruise, but no break.
Beleskey appeared in two games with the Ducks last season, going scoreless while averaging 11:09 time on ice. In eight games for San Antonio this season, he had one goal, three points and 15 penalty minutes.
"We don't bring a player in without saying we're going to play him. We're going to pay him," Carlyle said of Beleskey. "We expect the transition to be less than what he experienced last time around, for sure."
A former fourth-round draft pick (2006), Beleskey made his NHL debut with the Ducks on Jan. 9 against Tampa Bay, recording a plus-1 rating in just under 14 minutes of ice time. He spent the rest of the season with AHL Iowa, earning 11 goals and 35 points, with 58 penalty minutes, in 58 games.
"I've had a lot of time to learn the system," Beleskey said. "I'm starting to get used to it."
The the 21-year-old he skated with both Marchant and Nokelainen in preseason games this year. Beleskey described his game as that of a "hard-nosed, hard-working forward who's going to bang, and if I have to, go into the corners and muck it up."
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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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