The Blue Jackets will be without top center Jeff Carter for at least a week, if not longer, after putting him on injured reserve with a fractured foot. Just when Carter, the team's big offseason acquisition, suffered the injury has led to conflicting reports. "There's some confusion around his injury," general manager Scott Howson said. "He had a bruised foot in training camp, which is still sore. And he's now got a fracture on the same foot, but it's not the same injury. "It is close to the fracture that he had a couple of years ago in Philadelphia. He has a plate in there with some screws in there. It's right along the same bone there."