After 562 games with the Predators in his first 10 NHL seasons, Ellis appeared in just 4 games last season with the Flyers. The 31-year-old has been sidelined due to an injury described as a ''multilayered'' issue involving the ''complex of the whole pelvic region.''
Ellis and the Flyers were confident he would be healthy for training camp after spending most of last season investigating the nature of his injury. He said that rest and rehabilitation, rather than surgery, would help him get healthy.
However, that seems not to be the case anymore, as Jordan Hall of NBC Sports Philadelphia has reported:
