Sean Durzi should not buy any lottery tickets anytime soon.
The Utah Mammoth missed 52 games last season because of an injury that occurred four games into the season . This year, it only took him two games to suffer a long-term ailment.
It happened in overtime of Saturday’s game against the Nashville Predators . Durzi collided hard with Predators forward Jonathan Marchessault and hit the ice right-arm-first. That’s significant because the injury that sidelined him last year was to his right shoulder.
Durzi, who’s a week away from his 27th birthday, is no stranger to long recoveries. In junior league play, he missed significant time after getting ankle surgery to remove an extra bone that had formed. It caused him to miss significant time, but it also opened a path for him to make