Sports

Alex Edler, Brandon Sutter Out Long-Term As Canucks Push For Playoff Spot

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 12 Feb, 2016 12:56 PM

VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Canucks will be missing two key pieces as they make a push for a playoff spot.

The Canucks announced via Twitter that defenceman Alex Edler will miss six weeks and forward Brandon Sutter is out six-to-eight weeks after both players were hurt in Vancouver's 3-1 win at Colorado on Tuesday.

Edler left the game after taking a slapshot off his foot, while Sutter had surgery for a fractured jaw after being hit in the face with a puck.

It's the second long-term injury of the season for Sutter, who missed the first 33 games of the season with a sports hernia.

The Canucks enter Friday's games two points behind Nashville for the second wild-card spot in the Western Conference.

The Canucks host the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday.

Prev Next

MORE Sports ARTICLES

Swimming: Bronze for Gayakwad

India's paralympic swimmer Sharath Gayakwad finished third in the 100m Butterfly (S8 category) at the IDM Berlin 2014 swimming competition here Thursday, clocking 1:09.31 seconds that was well outside his personal best of 1:07.12 that he set at the London Paralympics in 2012.

Swimming: Bronze for Gayakwad

World Cup opening stadium will be ready: FIFA

FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke said the Sao Paulo Arena which will host the opening match of the World Cup will be ready in time despite construction delays.

World Cup opening stadium will be ready: FIFA

Schumacher sued over road accident caused before coma in Spain

Schumacher, who is in a coma after suffering head injuries whilst skiing Dec 29 last year at the French resort of Meribel, is facing charges in connection with a collision with a motorcyclist which took place in the town of Bormujos, close to Seville Nov 17 last year, reports Xinhua.

Schumacher sued over road accident caused before coma in Spain

United sack Moyes, Giggs interim manager

Manchester United Tuesday sacked manager David Moyes after just 10 months in charge and appointed their former Welsh international Ryan Giggs as interim manager till the end of the season.

United sack Moyes, Giggs interim manager

Opinion: Will anything change in India with new prime minister?

We are all under the veil of the audacity of hope thinking in assuming that the office of the new prime minister will sway a magic wand and things will immediately start remarkably improving.

Opinion: Will anything change in India with new prime minister?

Restore me as BCCI chief: N. Srinivasan

N. Srinivasan, who had sidestepped as the BCCI head, making room for the appointment of legendary cricketer Sunil Gavaskar as the Indian cricketing body's interim president tasked with the conduct of the IPL-7, Tuesday moved the apex court seeking his restoration.