The worst is confirmed for Max Pacioretty in brutal turn of events

The worst case scenario has been confirmed for the Carolina Hurricanes and forward Max Pacioretty. The veteran forward was finally playing his first games as a member of the Hurricanes, after missing nearly three months while recovering from an Achilles tear.

But it happened again. On the same leg.

Team insider Luke DeCock has just confirmed that the MRI revealed how Pacioretty “ tore his right Achilles tendon, two weeks after returning to action after suffering the same injury in August.”

Last night, a strange yet scary sequence towards the end of the game against the Minnesota Wild, Pacioretty injured his right leg — the same leg on which he had Achilles surgery — and needed be helped off the ice.

When looking back at the play, Pacioretty is nowhere near anyone that could have caused the injury. He had the puck near the Wild net and was pivoting to make a pass back to Seth Jarvis, but his leg gave out and he fell on the ice. He remains motionless and had to be helped off and down the tunnel.

After the game, the Hurricanes already had a bad feeling that Pacioretty had re-injured his right Achilles. In the five games he played since his return to action, his firsts with Carolina since the trade from the Vegas Golden Knights, Pacioretty scored three goals.

And it will be it for this season, and who knows what it means for his career.

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