An excerpt from the Philadelphia Inquirer (Ed Moran) article which details the injury bug that has hit the Flyers defense:

THE NEWS ON Randy Jones is worse than the Flyers expected: He will be out 12 to 16 weeks recovering from what could only be called significant surgery. He has a labrum tear, torn cartilage and torn ligaments, all in his right hip, and a groin pull.

Jones is going to Nashville this week to have it all repaired. I don’t know how this team will be able to move forward without trading for a veteran defenseman, considering it also has lost Ryan Parent to shoulder surgery.

General manager Paul Holmgren is not a guy to stand around and wait for things to get bad before he makes a move. He acknowledged after Saturday’s 4-3, Opening-Night loss to the Rangers that he was looking, but it will take some work to get anything done.

The Flyers don’t have the salary-cap room right now and they are up against the allowed number of 50 contracts. Holmgren would have to make moves to make room.

“It won’t be easy,” Holmgren said. “But we’ll continue looking around. I expect something to happen.