"Flyers general manager Paul Holmgren said on Thursday night that he was uncertain how long goalie Ilya Bryzgalov will be absent from the club.

Bryzgalov has a virus and Holmgren said that given how contagious the Norovirus is right now, he wanted him away from the club.

"We'll see how he is later and I'm sure [trainer] Jimmy [McCrossin] will talk to him tonight to see how he is doing," Holmgren said. "It's some kind of flu."

Bryzgalov came to the Wells Fargo Center for the morning skate and was sent home. The Flyers recalled goalie Jason Bacashihua from the Phantoms."