Well, nobody really knew does it require a surgery or not, so it was given time, time to heal and now it pretty much seems that surgery is the only option. They prob thought, let's not do the surgery yet, we have this situation and let's see how it progresses given the estimation of games being back was unknown and if it won't last, do the surgery straight away but MDL prob wants to help his team till the remaining and the most important games of the season.