The will definitely be without agitating forward on Tuesday night in an important game against the Chicago Blackhawks, but he could be sidelined for much longer. Cooke likely needs season-ending surgery according to Michael Adam Wainwright Jersey Ru so of the . :If you do the math and connect the dots, Cooke has been playing with a sports hernia.Yeo called it a lower-body injury today. Im certain this has nothing to do with the Rob Klinkhammer kneeing in Edmonton Ryan Helsley Jersey last Tuesday that left Cooke with a charleyhorse.Cooke mi sed 22 games from Oct. 30-Dec. 17 with a hip flexor. He was injured the second game of the season at Colorado and played with the injury the next six games in agony. As it turns out, Cooke told me in December this was no normal hip flexor injury. He had three torn muscles, including the Psoas Major, which attaches to the femur, and two other supporting hip flexor muscles.Yeo said Tuesday this is something different than what has been bothering him. It hasnt gone away and hes been battling through it. Quite often with these things, this might be Junior Fernandez Jersey something as a result of compensating for the other injury, too. Im not sure. But hes been trying to battle through it.Cooke has appeared in only 27 games this season and Jedd Gyorko Jersey has registered eight points. In the three seasons previous to the 2014-15 campaign, Cooke had not mi sed a single game.If Cooke is out, that should open up a spot for some ice time for some of the Wild's younger players, but the team just placed on injured reserve, which further hampers the depth situation. Jordan Schroeder was recalled earlier Tuesday to John Gant Jersey take Fontaine's spot. The Wild are currently trying to battle back into the playoff picture and still have a long way to go as they sit five points out of the final wild card spot. Losing Cooke hurts when it comes to experience and physical play, but the team will have to depend on some of the youngsters to fill the gaps and help the team continue on the comeback trail.