"he Canucks revealed Thursday why Pavol Demitra has been slow to recover from offseason shoulder surgery.

Despite having had a medical procedure in May to repair tears to the front and back of his rotator cuff, Demitra remains out indefinitely. He hasn't been skating with the team and complained to The Province this week that there's "a lot of pain in the shoulder."

Head coach Alain Vigneault revealed Thursday the pain is from shoulder tendinitis, which means there is inflammation of the rotator cuff tendon.

"He got another injection a couple of days ago to relieve the tendinitis," Vigneault said. "That's what's slowing this down a little bit.""