Kings defenseman and captain Rob Blake will be out for at least two weeks with a broken left ankle, which occurred when he blocked a shot at Edmonton on Jan. 15.
Blake played six more games with the injury and an MRI exam on Friday revealed he has a non-displaced fracture, team officials said today. Other previous tests did not show the fracture, Kings Coach Marc Crawford said.
The Kings, who lost, 6-3, today to the New Jersey Devils to leave their record at 6-3-1 since Jan. 8, were two games into an eight-game trip when Blake left the team to return to Los Angeles for treatment.
"He has played great. He really has," Crawford said in a telephone interview from New York. "It's a tough loss for Rob and a tough loss for us. We think he's going to be OK. . . . He's been playing but it's been getting worse. He has a huge pain threshold."
Injury sidelines Blake before Kings' 6-3 loss to Devils (LATIMES) 
