"I think my back was something that was just kind of progressively getting worse and a week or so before that, I had missed a game, I was kind of a late scratch out west," DeKeyser said. "I think it was in Vancouver (Oct. 15) actually. It was just kind of something that progressively, I guess, got worse on me and it got to the point where they had to go in and fix it up. I was trying to rehab it and trying to make it better through other means other than surgery but in the end, I had to get the operation done."