But he admitted the blow was even more damaging as he was only nine games back from a six-month lay-off following shoulder surgery.
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Nicky Robinson failed with penalty attempts in the fourth and 15th minutes, the latter following Munster's Samoan-born flanker Nick Williams' sin-binning for shoulder-charging Roberts off the ball.
Shortly after Kovalchuk banged a power-play shot off the post, Del Zotto swatted a shoulder-high pass from the corner by Derek Stepan into the net at 11:49 for New York's third short-handed goal of the season.
Kirk McGlamery said even drivers who dodged to the side of cars crashing in front of them weren't safe from getting rear-ended off the highway's shoulder.
The Dragons replaced their fly-half with Shaun Connor early in the second stanza, and were forced into another change when tight-head Robinson went off with a shoulder injury, increasing their concerns at prop ahead of Friday's daunting Heineken Cup trip to Gloucester.
Laulala fed Rush and then followed the back-row on the inside shoulder, picking a pass off his shins for a deserved try that went unconverted - although Parks' kick was genuinely tricky close to the right touchline.
But the match went to uncontested scrums after loose-head Black was forced off only for replacement Murphy to join him with a shoulder injury after just one set-piece against powerful Tim Payne.
The New York Times reports that Saudi and Qatari officials are sending small arms to the rebels, but are holding off sending heavier equipment, such as shoulder-fired missiles.
Michael Platt damaged his heel in the warm-up and was replaced by Jason Crookes, while scrum-half Matt Orford went off with a shoulder injury early in the second half.
We hit it, the steering wheel went dead and the car began to glide, ghosting toward the shoulder, which looked about four feet wide and well below the surface of the new blacktop it was a big drop-off of five or six inches and the shoulder was red clay drenched with rain.
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There was little opportunity for improvisation but one notable moment followed when Rankin sent a full toss well wide of off-stump and Morgan somehow managed to get outside the ball and flip it over his shoulder to the fine-leg fence.
Darren Thomas (shoulder), signed from Glamorgan in the off-season, has still not played a game while Tony Palladino (abdominal strain) is only just back in action.
Their plan is said to have been to return to Newburgh, set off the bombs by remote control, and then use shoulder-launched missiles to shoot down aircraft at a military base at Stewart International Airport.
Within minutes, the airliner taking off from the Mombasa airport with 271 aboard was brushed by two shoulder-fired missiles.
By the end of the seventeenth century, refined versions of the hunting horn had made their way out of the fields, off the shoulder, and into the orchestra, and by the mid-eighteenth century most orchestras included a pair of horns.
This operation it is known as a total shoulder arthroplasty, Procedure No. 080.81 on the National Center for Health Statistics' roster of "clinical modifications" would require the orthopedist to take a surgical saw, cut off the shoulder joint that God gave me, and replace it with a man-made contraption of silicon and titanium.
But Marcus Trescothick, who batted at number eight because of a shoulder problem, only managed a single before he was taken at mid-wicket off Jacques Rudolph.
He avoided a tackle by Olave, fought off a shoulder challenge by Markus Holgersson and slid the ball past a sliding Robles for his team-high sixth goal.
He avoided a tackle by Olave, fought off a shoulder challenge by Markus Holgersson and slid the ball past a sliding goaltender Luis Robles for his team-high sixth goal.
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