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Jagr’s wonky groin to cost him two more games at least

Jaromir Jagr

Philadelphia Flyers’ Jaromir Jagr (68) takes a shot during the first period of an NHL hockey game against the New York Islanders at Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, N.Y., Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011. Jagr left the game later with a lower body strain as the Flyers won 4-3 in overtime. (AP Photo/Paul J. Bereswill)

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Jaromir Jagr’s early exit in last night’s Flyers overtime win over the Islanders is thanks to the same groin injury that kept him out of action before last night. While that groin injury cost him two games, the re-aggravation of it is going to cost him two more this weekend.

CSNPhilly’s Tim Panaccio finds out from Jagr that the groin injury is to the same one he hurt last week and Jagr fears that he may have come back to action too quickly. The lure of potentially lighting up the Islanders is truly a dangerous siren’s song too powerful to resist.

Groin injuries are very annoying for players to deal with and a pain of a different sort to get figured out once you have one. It’s too easy to get re-injured (as Jagr found out last night) and making sure it’s totally healthy can be tricky to get figured out. For Jagr, being 39 years-old doesn’t help much there. Getting older like that is frustrating.

With the Flyers having five days off after they play on Saturday, it’ll give Jagr a little over a week to rest it and see where he’s at.