Last Updated: October 24, 2023, 00:01 IST
SEATTLE: Seattle Kraken forward Andre Burakovsky is expected to miss six to eight weeks after being injured within the crew’s recreation over the weekend towards the New York Rangers.
The crew introduced Monday that Burakovsky underwent an unspecified process to restore an higher-physique damage.
Early within the second interval Saturday, Burakovsky was hit by Rangers captain Jacob Trouba and crashed into the boards proper shoulder first. He obtained up reaching for his proper collarbone, left the ice and didn’t return, and Trouba was penalized for roughing.
Burakovsky was lastly wholesome after sitting out vital time final season due to a groin damage and subsequent setback that restricted him to 49 video games and prompted him to miss Seattle’s playoff run. He had two factors within the first 5 video games this season.
The 28-yr-previous Swede is in his second season with the Kraken after signing a $27.5 million, 5-yr contract with them in the summertime of 2022. That deal got here after he helped Colorado win the Stanley Cup, his second NHL championship after being a part of the 2018 Washington Capitals.
Burakovsky was a primary-spherical choose of the Capitals in 2013. He has recorded 363 factors in 667 common-season and playoff video games since making his debut in 2014.
Losing Burakovsky is one other blow for the Kraken, who’ve misplaced 5 of their first six video games coming off the franchise’s first playoff look.
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