Hurricanes star Seth Jarvis is expected to miss at least the first part of next season.
The newly minted Stanley Cup champion underwent shoulder surgery that will “probably” sideline him “4-6 months,” according to Carolina general manager Eric Tulsky.
“Hopefully on the shorter end of that,” Tulsky said, per NHL.com. ”But that’s the range we were given.”
Jarvis dealt with issues on the same shoulder during the 2023-24 season, although he played 81 games through the injury.
“Shoulders are tough,” Tulsky said. “Once it goes, you can keep aggravating it and it can limit what you can do and it’s tough, and eventually it needs to be repaired. You can strengthen it and try to get through it, and he did that for a while.”
Tulsky said Jarvis, the Hurricanes’ leading goal scorer, likely would have had the procedure last summer if the team hadn’t made a deep playoff run, but opted against it to avoid missing a significant portion of the season.
“Then we got to this year and had another deep run, and at some point, you just need to do it,” he continued. “You can’t be limited for the rest of your career. You start thinking maybe we’re going to have deep runs every year and are just going to have to bite the bullet and get it done.”
Jarvis, who was taken No. 13 overall by the Hurricanes in the 2020 NHL Draft, had another excellent season for Carolina with 66 points (32 goals, 34 assists).
It was his third straight season reaching each of those figures.
During the Canes’ Stanley Cup run, Jarvis had 11 points (four goals, seven assists) in 19 games, including a pair of assists and goal during the Final against the Golden Knights.
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