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Flyers captain Claude Giroux heads to dressing room with possible injury just a few minutes after training camp began. (Randy Miller)

VOORHEES – Fifteen minutes into the Flyers' first day of training camp, their superstar captain left the ice with a lower body injury.

Claude Giroux, a Hart Trophy finalist last season, took two line rushes and then skated off the ice around 10:20 a.m. on Friday morning – about 15 minutes after players hit the ice.

Giroux didn’t appear to be hurt walking past an NJ.com reporter on his way to the dressing room at Skate Zone, but a fan tweeted that said the center was “pointing to his groin before he left the ice. After he raced for the puck, he screamed.”

True?

Flyers PR sent out an email at 11:38 p.m. in which GM Ron Hextall reported, "Claude Giroux has a lower-body injury and is being evaluated."

Veteran center Darroll Powe, who is in camp on an AHL contract, replaced Giroux on the top line with right wing Jakub Voracek and left wing Brayden Schenn.

G left ice only about 10 minutes in after going after puck. He screamed and went off. Might be groin. Awesome... #Flyers — Jeanine Sieracki (@jsieracki918) September 19, 2014

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