The Phantoms are nearing the last month of their regular season, and just as they’ve found their lineup a bit depleted from call-ups to the Flyers, they’ve found themselves equally hit by the injury bug on top of that.
The weekend of February 28 was an unkind one to the Phantoms. That Friday game saw Massimo Rizzo take a pretty brutal blindside hit, and though he was able to finish the game, he was out of the lineup for the Saturday game on March 1, and he’s been out ever since. The Phantoms also lost Samu Tuomaala in that March 1 game, as he — already seemingly a bit banged up, as he’d been in and out of the lineup over the previous couple of weeks — got tangled up with a player along the boards in the third period,
It’s been about two weeks now that these two have been out, but we finally have an update on their statuses.