"There's a good possibility New Jersey center Travis Zajac will be back on the ice within two weeks. Game action will take a little longer.

According to Devils general manager Lou Lamoriello, Zajac, who has played just eight games this season while recovering from a torn left Achilles' tendon, must build up strength and flexibility in his foot and leg before starting to skate. Only then can he begin working his way back into practicing.

"The good news is that it appears it has healed the way it should," Lamoriello told the media hours before his club hosted to the St. Louis Blues at Prudential Center. "In saying that, because he's been off the ice a number of weeks and he hasn't done anything, he has to get certain dimensions of his leg back and his foot. So he'll probably be skating in a little over a week and he probably will not be playing before a month."

Zajac was examined in Winnipeg on Wednesday."