Flyers’ Matt Read out 4 weeks with upper-body injury

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Philadelphia Flyers forward Matt Read will miss the next four weeks with an upper-body injury, the team announced Monday.

Read got hurt in Sunday’s game against the Nashville Predators, having to leave the game in the first period.

He had appeared in all 27 of the Flyers’ games this season, tallying six goals and four assists.

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