Lucic surgery successful, will miss 4-6 weeks

Peter Chiarelli announced today that Bruins forward Milan Lucic underwent successful surgery to repair a broken right index finger. He is expected to miss 4-6 weeks.

Claude Julien expressed his displeasure with losing Lucic for up to six weeks when addressing the media today.

"Any time you lose a guy like Looch, one of those players that usually has a pretty good impact on the game when he's on top of it, it's certainly going to hurt," coach Claude Julien said.

"I think we saw him more like the player we wanted him to be in Dallas. It's going to hurt, but it's going to give somebody else an opportunity to step up, and we've always been a team in the past that has responded well to those by everybody picking up the slack."

The move to Long Term Injured Reserve (LTIR) is retroactive to October 16. The first game Lucic would be eligible to return from LTIR is November 10, against Pittsburgh. However, it does not appear that Lucic would be available to come back that early.