Terrible news for Ryan Ellis and the Philadelphia Flyers

Defenseman Ryan Ellis has not worked out for the Philadelphia Flyers as they hoped when they first acquired him in a three-way trade with the Nashville Predators and Vegas Golden Knights last summer.

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.''

New head coach John Tortorella spoke back in August about Ellis' situation:

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:

Flyers general manager Chuck Fletcher also acknowledged that Ellis' could be career-ending.

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