Flyers’ Lindros Is Likely Out for Season

The Philadelphia Flyers don’t expect captain Eric Lindros to return from his collapsed lung, even for this season’s playoffs, team Chairman Ed Snider said. The Flyers’ All-Star center probably will be discharged this morning from a hospital in Nashville, Tenn., the Flyers said. Lindros is slowly recovering from the injury he suffered when he was checked during a game a week ago against the Nashville Predators. “We’ll have to listen to the doctors, but we’re operating under the assumption that he won’t be back this season,” Snider said. “We have to.”

Though Lindros’s condition is improving, doctors have warned that the injury--caused by a ruptured artery--could continue to be dangerous. Lindros lost about three liters of blood that flooded into his chest cavity in the hours after he was injured. Adults have five to six liters of blood. . . . Jaromir Jagr of the Pittsburgh Penguins will sit out tonight’s game against the Flyers at Philadelphia because of a slight groin pull.