From TSN’s Aaron Ward, on the injury to new Bruins forward Brett Connolly:
More bad news for Boston Bruins. Brett Connolly takes shot to hand in practice and the initial results show its broken. #TSN
— Aaron Ward (@NHL_AaronWard) March 4, 2015
From a few hours before that tweet, here’s CSN New England:
Claude Julien said following practice that Connolly was struck on the hand by a fired puck, and was being checked out by team doctors. You just can’t make this kind of stuff up for the bad-luck B’s.
“He got hit in the hand with a puck, so he’s gone to our team doctors to be evaluated,” said Julien. “That’s the only update I have, guys.”
Connolly, of course, was traded to Boston from Tampa Bay on Monday, with Bruins GM Peter Chiarelli saying the 22-year-old winger could “come in and help us right away.”
Unfortunately, “right away” appears to have changed to “in six weeks.”
Per source, Connolly is out six weeks with a broken finger. #Bruins
— DJ Bean (@DJ_Bean) March 4, 2015
Update: The Bruins have confirmed that Connolly is out six weeks with “a displaced fracture in his right index finger.”