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Uh-Oh, Joe… Colborne Leaves Game With Upper-Body Injury

Some news from the game in Winnipeg, folks, and it’s not good.
Calgary Flames forward Joe Colborne has left tonight’s game with the Winnipeg Jets with an upper body injury.
According to the official stats, his last shift ended 6:39 into the second period. Colborne had off-season wrist surgery but was medically cleared for full participation just prior to the beginning of main training camp.
The Calgary Sun’s Randy Sportak is in Winnipeg and tweeted the following from the press box, which more or less tells the tale of Colborne’s game.
Outside of maybe Mason Raymond, no established Calgary Flames player needed to have a big camp more than Colborne did – with the Flames carrying several bodies that require waivers or are otherwise players that the team probably doesn’t want to part ways with.
For the record, I don’t immediately recall which wrist Colborne had surgery on, so I can’t really speculate as to whether this is a new injury or the aggravation of an existing one.
UPDATE: George Johnson of the Calgary Herald reports that the surgery wrist was the left wrist.
We’ll have more updates as they become available.
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