Danny Briere has a torn abdominal muscle, or sports hernia as is the modern parlance, and will be lost for about a month.

This is a major blow to the Flyers, who are already missing two defensemen with long-term injuries (three if you count Derian Hatcher) and have not won a game to date.

More on this later, but this Flyers season is in grave danger of completely unraveling as it did two seasons ago.