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The best player on the Pittsburgh Penguins will miss the start of the season. The Penguins announced that C Sidney Crosby has undergone successful wrist surgery and will miss 6 weeks, according to Penguins GM Ron Hextall.
Hextall said "The conclusion that we came to was that this procedure was the best way to proceed. I think we all, including Sid, wish we had known this a month or two months ago. It would've been great. But we are where we are, and I think on the positive side, we have four weeks until we play a regular-season game."
The procedure requires Crosby to be out a minimum of 6 weeks, with the potential for a longer absence if things don't go as planned in recovery. If he were to miss the minimum, he would still miss the start of the regular season, which for Pittsburgh is on October 12, 5 weeks away. The soonest he would be able to return is October 23, against the Tampa Bay Lightning.
Crosby will also not participate at the start of training camp, with the potential to start his on ice recovery later in training camp, as the regular season nears. Hextall added that Crosby is having surgery on his left wrist, which Crosby also had surgery on in August of 2020. Hextall said he has been dealing with the wrist injury over time.
Hextall said "Sid's been dealing with this for numerous years now. So at the end of the year, you let the body heal. Test things out. There's just a process that takes weeks to figure out where the wrist is at, whether he can get through another year. Some point, you wrap things up along the process, along the way. After exhausting all minimally-invasive options and much discussion, it was decided that surgery was in his best interest."
In addition to Crosby missing the start of the season, fellow center Evgeni Malkin will also be unavailable for the start of training camp, and could also miss the start of the regular season after undergoing knee surgery after the Penguins playoff run ended this summer.
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