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Torres aims to resume skating soon -- without his right ACL

Raffi Torres

Here’s the latest on injured San Jose forward Raffi Torres, who’s yet to play this year due to complications from a knee injury.

From CSN Bay Area:

Torres has been around since last Monday, and hopes to begin skating in the next week or so, after multiple infections in his surgically repaired right knee resulted in a complete removal of his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL).

“People have helped me along the way and I’m hoping that I can get back and start helping this team out the way I know I can,” Torres said. “At the end of the day, I haven’t played in a couple years, but I feel good. Mentally, I feel refreshed.”

“Coming back here puts that fire back in my body.”

Tuesday was the first time Torres spoke publicly since returning to the Bay Area in the hopes of resuming skating. He was only able to play a handful of regular season games last year and limped his way through San Jose’s opening-round playoff collapse to Los Angeles; Torres then spent the last few months rehabbing, trying to strengthen the muscles around the ACL-less knee while visiting doctors to ensure the infections had cleared completely.

Now, the next step -- getting back on the ice.

Neither Torres nor the Sharks are putting any timetable on a return, and the 33-year-old acknowledges his knee might not respond the way he wants. That said, Torres isn’t looking too far down the road, opting to employ the “one day at a time” approach.

“I’m just trying to be hopeful that when I start skating it’s not affecting me,” he explained. “If I can play at the level I need to play at, I’ll keep going. If not, we’ll have to sit down again and reassess the situation.”