Both Team Canada and Team USA have, due to insurance purposes, admitted that their Olympic “evaluation camp” will be little more than a bonding exercise. Still, it is news when one of the best Canadian forwards available chooses to skip it out.
Claude Giroux injury: forward will skip Team Canada camp
The star forward will focus on rehabbing his injury instead.
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Claude Giroux of the Philadelphia Flyers and (presumably) Team Canada will not be in attendance for the camp, which takes place Aug. 25-28 in Calgary. The camp comes just after Giroux had surgery to repair tendon damage in his finger. That happened at a charity golf tournament when a club shattered in his hands.
“Although there were no broken bones, there was some damage to his extensor tendons in his finger,” Flyers general manager Paul Holmgren said in a statement last week. “He is expected to have a full recovery in 5-6 weeks.”
Team Canada is making no plans, as of now, to replace Giroux in camp. The 25-year-old forward has put up excellent offensive seasons in each of the last three years, with his tops of 93 points in 2011-12, and figures to be a near lock to make the club. The 2014 Olympic hockey tournament in Sochi begins Feb. 12.
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