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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Knightfall" data-source="post: 2593925" data-attributes="member: 2012">Hejduk has surgery, out 4-5 weeksSports Ticker9/20/2005 10:51:48 AMDENVER (Ticker) - The Colorado Avalanche will be without Milan Hejduk for the start of the 2005-06 season.The All-Star right wing underwent arthroscopic knee surgery on Tuesday and will be sidelined four to five weeks."After further examination, the procedure was necessary in order to eliminate the pain he was experiencing in his knee," Avalanche trainer Matt Sokolowski said. "The procedure went really well and a full recovery is expected."The NHL season begins on October 5 and the Avalanche hope that Hejduk will be able to return by October 16."It's early in the preseason and it was the ideal time for Milan to get this taken care of," Avalanche coach Joel Quenneville said. "He'll be fully recovered in a few weeks and ready to embark on a long regular season."The Avalanche re-signed Hejduk last month to a five-year contract worth $19.5 million.Hejduk, 29, has eclipsed the 30-goal plateau four times in his six-year NHL career with Colorado, scoring 36 in 1999-00, 41 in 2000-01, a league-leading 50 in 2002-03 and 35 in 2003-04.Last season during the NHL lockout, Hejduk played in 48 games with Pardubice HC in the Czech Elite League and recorded 25 goals and 26 assists. He represented the Czech Republic at the Olympics in 1998, when it won the gold medal, and in 2002 as well as the World Cup of Hockey in 2004.A two-time All-Star, Hejduk shared the plus-minus award with former teammate Peter Forsberg at plus 52 in 2002-03, when he also won the Maurice Richard Trophy as the league's top goal scorer.In the 2001 playoffs, Hejduk led the team with 16 assists in 23 games as the Avalanche won their second Stanley Cup title.</blockquote>

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