Winger on Wrist Watch

Adam Deadmarsh, still on the mend after off-season surgery to remove a bone chip from his left wrist, sat out the Kings’ intrasquad game Saturday night in El Segundo.

The 26-year-old right wing, a key acquisition in the February trade that sent Rob Blake to the Colorado Avalanche, said he suffered the injury early in the Kings’ first-round playoff series against the Detroit Red Wings.

It didn’t prevent him from emerging as the series hero. Deadmarsh scored game-winning goals in Games 5 and 6 against the Red Wings, clinching the series for the Kings with his goal at 4:48 of overtime in Game 6 at Staples Center.

But it was annoying.

“The bone chip would pop up and it would lock my wrist,” he said. “Every once in a while during play I’d have to take my hand out of my other glove and pop the chip back down before I could do anything with my wrist.

“It was more of an inconvenience than anything. It wasn’t real painful.”

In late June, doctors removed the chip and cleaned out scar tissue.

In training camp, while his teammates have scrimmaged daily, Deadmarsh has been limited to non-contact drills.

“It’s frustrating not being out there with the guys and doing what you need to do to get ready,” he said. “You can go out and practice all you want, but to get ready you really need to get hit and thrown around in corners and stuff like that.

“I’m not able to do that yet.”

Deadmarsh will be kept out of Tuesday night’s exhibition opener against the Mighty Ducks at Staples Center and Thursday night’s exhibition against the San Jose Sharks at San Jose, but he might play Saturday against the Sharks at Las Vegas.

“That’s more precautionary than anything else,” Coach Andy Murray said.

“He might even be two weeks out, but he’ll definitely be 100% by the start of the season.”