"'Sami Salo seriously injured again' is the headline in the Friday July 23 edition of Helsingin Sanomat, over a file photo of Salo on a stormy Stanley Park seawall and the caption: Dark clouds hanging over Salo's hockey career again.

But that was pretty well it for news of Salo's ruptured Achilles tendon, suffered playing the Nordic game of floorball, back in his homeland.

Salo has won Olympic silver and bronze representing Finland, but apparently lacks the star appeal of, say, a Steve Nash or Justin Morneau, who if they were to suffer a possible career-ending injury kicking a soccer ball around in the offseason back in B.C. it would be news splashed all over the place.

But a quick scan of the two newspapers from Salo's hometown of Turku found online, Abo Underrattelser and Turun Sanomat, and the 10 Helsinki papers available online, shows no mention of Salo after the briefest of notices on Friday.

"It's sad, but Sami's not big news here," one Finnish sports reporter said.

The Province tried to contact Salo by phone at his Finnish home, but no one picked up on the other end. It's understandable the injury-prone D-man doesn't feel like talking about his 40th injury."