Vancouver Canucks ahead Brock Boeser is out indefinitely after he absorbed a success to the top from Tanner Jeannot of the Los Angeles Kings on Thursday night time.
Coach Rick Tocchet stated he wasn’t positive how lengthy Boeser, Vancouver’s main scorer, can be out.
“I talked to him briefly,” Tocchet stated. “Does not really feel nice, however I would not say it is horrible, so I believe he is indefinite proper now. This stuff can change [in] per week or 24 hours. I do not know.”
Halfway via the primary interval of the Canucks’ 4-2 win over the Kings, Jeannot was assessed a match penalty for an unlawful examine to Boeser’s head. The NHL Division of Participant Security suspended Jeannot for 3 video games Friday.
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Boeser left the sport in Los Angeles and missed the Canucks’ sport Saturday night time, a 7-3 loss to the Edmonton Oilers.
“It is a harmful play, and hopefully Brock goes to be OK,” Tocchet stated.
Boeser leads the Canucks with six targets in 12 video games, and he has 11 whole factors.
The Canucks known as up 20-year-old ahead Jonathan Lekkerimaki from Abbotsford of the American Hockey League on Sunday in Boeser’s absence. The No. 15 collection of the 2022 NHL draft, Lekkerimaki might make his NHL debut when the Calgary Flames go to Vancouver on Tuesday.
At Abbotsford, he had seven factors (5 targets, two assists) in seven video games.
