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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- San Jose Sharks forward Marty Havlat has undergone surgery to help repair the injured groin that sidelined him during the playoffs and will not be an option to be bought out of the final two years of his contract this summer. General manager Doug Wilson said Monday that Havlat had a bilateral pelvic floor reconstruction earlier this month and will be sidelined indefinitely. "Its not an uncommon injury for hockey players," Wilson said. "The severity, both sides, time will tell. I dont have a crystal ball to it. That was the diagnosis, that was the procedure, and there was not a timeline to the back end of it." With Havlat injured, the Sharks will not be able to use one of the two compliance buyouts in the new collective bargaining agreement to get out of the final two years of his $30 million, six-year contract. Wilson had previously not said whether the team would use a buyout this summer. He said Monday he does not expect that to happen as the team looks to build on a strong finish to the season that ended with a Game 7 loss in the second round to Los Angeles. "The big thing now is just to maintain the momentum that we have from doing our reset on the fly," Wilson said. Wilson would not commit to Havlat being on the team next season, saying no decisions can be made until he is healthy again. Havlat has been mostly a disappointment since being acquired from Minnesota in a deal for Dany Heatley two years ago. Havlat has missed 51 regular season games with various injuries during his two seasons in San Jose, posting 15 goals and 30 assists in 79 games. Known as a strong playoff performer, Havlat played only briefly in the post-season this season because of the groin injury. He got hurt in the first period of the opening game in the first round against Vancouver and tried to come back in Game 3 of the second round against Los Angeles. He left again in the first period with a similar injury and did not play again as San Jose was knocked out in seven games by the Kings. Wilson said Havlat needs to change his game a bit to become more of a "north-south" player to fit the Sharks aggressive style but thought he could have been a valuable contributor against a team like Chicago in the playoffs. "When he played the right way he was a very effective player," Wilson said. "Hes a playoff type player in certain series." Wilson has already been busy this off-season, having agreed to a five-year contract extension with star centre Logan Couture that will keep him off the free-agent market next summer. That contract cant be announced until July 5 when Couture enters the final year of his current deal. The Sharks also signed forward Raffi Torres last week to a three-year, $6 million deal that prevented him from being an unrestricted free agent July 5 and signed a deal with Czech prospect and 2012 first-round pick Tomas Hertl to join the team next season. San Jose also gave a contract extension to coach Todd McLellan, who has led the Sharks to the playoffs all five seasons that hes been at the helm. McLellan has a 220-108-48 record and has guided San Jose to three Pacific Division titles and two trips to the Western Conference finals since taking over before the 2008-09 season. The team still needs to decide what to do with Brent Burns, who was acquired two years ago to be a dominant defenceman but excelled after being moved to forward midway through last season. Wilson said a decision would likely be made next week on where Burns will play next season. The Sharks currently have more depth at defence but there could be a major hole for a power-play defenceman when Dan Boyle is eligible to be an unrestricted free agent next summer. "(Burns) can be a dominant defenceman in this league. Hes proven that in the past," Wilson said. "Its where we need to use him. The timing of that, this year was we needed to use him up front, and he filled a great need for us. We wanted to play an attacking game. Shoot, I dont know how you defend against him because he doesnt know what hes doing so how do they know? But that was part of how we wanted to play. Were coming after you, were attacking, and he fit perfectly." The Sharks also have plenty of picks in what Wilson believes is a very strong draft coming up Sunday following some late-season trades that moved Douglas Murray, Michal Handzus and Ryane Clowe. San Jose has its own first-round pick, three second-round picks, a fourth-rounder, a fifth-rounder and two seventh-round picks. 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We have tried so hard, the MLB, to expand the black athletes opportunity, said La Russa, who spent two years working for Major League Baseball. We want the black athletes to pick not basketball or football, but want them to play baseball; they should play baseball. And were working to make that happen in the inner cities. We have a lot of Latin players. We have players from the Pacific Rim.Jones opinion on the lack of African-American players in MLB is supported by the leagues demographics. Only 8 percent of the league classifies as African-American, according to USA Today, with a total of just 69 black players being on the Opening Day rosters of the leagues 30 teams.La Russa agreed that there is an issue but said effort is being made.Its very difficult in the inner cities to get black athletes to play the game, La Russa said. So what [MLB is doing is] expanding the opportunity so the black athlete gets a chance.La Russa further said baseball is the smart choice for young athletes, regardless of race.If you pick the sport where you have all shapes and sizes, you can retire and not walk around crippled, its gotta be baseball, said La Russa, who is now the chief baseball officer of the Arizona Diamondbacks. But we have to provide the opportunities, but its not because its an elitist sport. Its because there just hasnt been enough playgrounds that have baseball. And thats goonna change.dddddddddddd It is changing because MLB is making it a target.Jones comments Monday are part of the broader topic of African-American athletes electing not to stand for the national anthem as a way of bringing attention to issues they feel need to be addressed in the U.S. Kaepernick started it by sitting during the national anthem during the preseason and has evolved his protest to taking a knee during the playing of The Star-Spangled Banner.La Russa, who as a manager led the Oakland Athletics to three straight World Series trips from 1988 to 1990 and a 1989 title, says he really distrust[s] the sincerity of the Bay Area quarterback.I was there in the Bay Area when he first was a star, a real star. I never once saw him do anything but promote himself. And all of a sudden now hes a second-stringer and hes got this mission ... and I just dont trust his sincerity, La Russa said. And even if he was sincere, theres ways to express your belief in some of the issues that face blacks around this country without disrespecting the country you live in or the flag that it represents.Asked if he as a manager would let a player sit during the anthem, La Russa said he absolutely would not allow it.I would tell [a player that wanted to sit out the anthem to] sit inside the clubhouse, La Russa said. Youre not going to be out there representing our team and our organization by disrespecting the flag. No, sir, I would not allow it. ... If you want to make your statement, you make it in the clubhouse, but not out there. Youre not going to show it that way publicly and disrespectfully.While he said he would force a protesting player to stay in the clubhouse, La Russa added that he wouldnt keep that player from playing.No, hed play the game, but he wouldnt be out there sitting down, La Russa said. Hed go in the locker room and make his protest. 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