Cal Clutterbuck has had back surgery already. Now it’s a question of whether the veteran winger will be ready for training camp.



“It’s my understanding he will be,” Lou Lamoriello told The Athletic on Friday, “but honestly it’s a process I don’t know much about. He’s doing well right now. I get updates all the time, he’s been here. We just have to trust the process and the doctors. It turned out the way the doctors felt it would.”



Clutterbuck reported on breakup day May 6 that he’d been playing through a host of back ailments, including two slipped discs, two rotated vertebrae and a stress fracture. He tried to play through it but had to sit out Game 4 of the Isles’ loss to the Hurricanes and knew surgery was a likely outcome; it just depended whether it would be something major with a months-long recovery or something more minor with therapy to alleviate the rest of the pain.



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