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Carter Injures Shoulder
Blue Jackets center Jeff Carter suffered a separated shoulder in the third period of tonight's 7-4 loss to Anaheim in Honda Center.
"We'll see where he's at and we'll get more detail tomorrow," Blue Jackets coach Scott Arniel said. The Jackets are scheduled to fly to Chicago on Monday and will finish this road trip on Tuesday in Chicago.
Carter was injured on his first shift of the third period when he was blindsided by Ducks defenseman Francois Beauchemin, a former Jacket. He did not return to the game.
This season has not gone the way the Blue Jackets hoped it would when they traded Jake Voracek and their first round pick (No. 8 overall) to the Philadelphia Flyers on the eve of last June's NHL entry draft.
Carter has 10-7-17 and a minus-9 rating in 30 games, and it can be said that he and Blue Jackets captain Rick Nash -- expected to form a mighty 1-2 punch -- have not enhanced each others' games.
Shoulder injuries are tricky. No use speculating on a timetable until more is known on Monday.
-- Aaron Portzline
twitter: @aportzline
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