Emerson Suffers Broken Finger

Only five games and one goal into his Kings’ career, winger Nelson Emerson figures to be out a while after suffering a broken right index finger when he was slashed 48 seconds into the third period Thursday night by the Flyers’ Daymond Langkow.

“That’s a tape that will be sent in to the league,” King Coach Andy Murray said after the slash was not called by referees Terry Gregson and Shane Heyer.

“The referees said [they] didn’t see it,” Murray said.

Emerson was sent back to Southern California for medical reevaluation, with no idea on when he can return to the ice.

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The Kings’ coaches shook up the lines, trying to create some offense, and came up with Luc Robitaille playing on a unit with Bryan Smolinski and Kelly Buchberger; and with Jozef Stumpel centering a line with Emerson (and later Craig Johnson) and Glen Murray.

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Flyer Coach Roger Neilson, fighting cancer, was discharged from Hahnemann University Hospital on Thursday after undergoing stem cell transplant surgery on March 10.