The Philadelphia Flyers will be without their best shutdown center, Sean Couturier, for the remainder of their first-round series against the high-powered Washington Capitals.

The Flyers announced Friday that Couturier will miss two weeks with an upper-body injury.

Couturier was injured roughly halfway through the second period of the Flyers' 2-0 loss in Game 1 when Alex Ovechkin, one of the players he was tasked with shutting down, delivered a heavy body check from a few feet away from the boards.

He landed shoulder-first, exited the ice and failed to return for the rest of the game.

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