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VANCOUVER — One Vancouver Canuck recovering from shoulder surgery could be in the lineup this weekend but another has had a major setback.
Coach Alain Vigneault said Friday that veteran winger Pavol Demitra required a second round of arthroscopic surgery to repair rotator cuff damage and is out indefinitely.
However, newcomer Mathieu Schneider, who also had a torn rotator cuff, could play Sunday against Continue reading ‘Demitra suffers shoulder injury setback’
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DALLAS — The Dallas Stars have placed centre Steve Ott on injured reserve with a rib cage muscle injury.
The move Friday came five days after Ott injured an oblique muscle against Vancouver. He has one assist and nine penalty minutes in four games this year.
Ott will miss his second game Friday night against Boston.
To replace Ott, Dallas recalled centre Aaron Gagnon from the Texas Stars Continue reading ‘Stars put Ott on IR with rib cage injury’
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota Wild centre Mikko Koivu will miss at least a week with a knee injury and could miss the rest of the regular season.
Koivu was hurt in Sunday’s victory over Edmonton.
Assistant general manager Tom Lynn says Koivu had an MRI and saw team doctors on Monday and will be out at least seven days. Lynn also said Koivu could miss all 10 games through Minnesota’s regular-season finale on April 11.
MONTREAL — Edmonton Oilers head coach Craig MacTavish is not overly concerned with the health of defenceman Sheldon Souray, who was injured late in the second period of Tuesday’s 4-3 overtime loss to the Montreal Canadiens.
“He’ll be evaluated (Wednesday), but we don’t anticipate it will be too long,” MacTavish said. “He wanted to go out, but we didn’t think it was worth the risk.”
MacTavish sure could have used Souray with Continue reading ‘Souray injury results in late collapse’
Washington Capitals captain Chris Clark is likely gone for the rest of the regular season with a torn tendon sheath in his right wrist.
Clark is scheduled to have surgery on Thursday after missing four of the past seven games.
Clark suffered the injury in training camp and missed 14 games in November and December with what was described as an arm injury.
He has just one goal and five assists in 32 games this season.
Continue reading ‘Wrist injury a blow to Caps’ Clark’
PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby ruled himself out of Friday night’s game against Anaheim because of an apparent left knee injury.
Crosby was hurt late in the Penguins’ 6-3 loss to Washington on Wednesday.
He did not try to skate Thursday but said he hoped to play against the Ducks.
When he got onto the ice during Friday’s pre-game skate, he realized that wouldn’t be possible.
Continue reading ‘Crosby sidelined by knee injury’
EDMONTON — The Edmonton Oilers placed tough guy Zach Stortini on injured reserve Sunday and recalled Ryan Potulny from Springfield of the American Hockey League.
Stortini suffered a lower body injury on Friday after falling awkwardly at the end of a fight with San Jose’s Brad Staubitz. He has a goal and two assists in 28 games this season and tops the Oilers with 111 penalty minutes.
Potulny leads Springfield in Continue reading ‘Fight-related injury shelves Stortini’
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Vancouver Canucks goaltender Roberto Luongo spoke to the media for the first time Sunday since injuring his groin earlier in the week, saying that he will not be back on the ice until he feels 100 percent.
“It wasn’t feeling like it was supposed to be feeling so I made a decison not to continue to practice because I didn’t want to make (my groin) worse. I’ll be off the ice until Continue reading ‘Luongo suffers injury setback’
TAMPA, Fla. — Tampa Bay Lightning goalie Mike Smith missed Sunday’s game with New Jersey because of an undisclosed lower-body injury.
Olaf Kolzig replaced Smith, who is listed as day to day.
The Lightning recalled goalie Karri Ramo from Norfolk of the AHL to serve as Kolzig’s backup. Tampa Bay also brought up defenceman Jamie Heward from Norfolk.
Tampa Bay left wing Gary Roberts (upper body) and centre Continue reading ‘Lightning lose Smith to injury’
PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh Penguins goalie Marc-Andre Fleury will miss Tuesday night’s game against Minnesota because of an undisclosed injury.
“It’s not a major injury,” coach Michel Therrien said Monday. “We just don’t want to take a risk.”
Under rules enacted upon the recommendation of league general managers before this season, NHL teams are not required to disclose the nature of injuries.
Fleury was Continue reading ‘Pens’ Fleury out with mystery injury’
