Evander Kane unlikely to play again this weekend after Thursday collision
Advertisement
Read this article for free:
or
Already have an account? Log in here »
To continue reading, please subscribe:
Monthly Digital Subscription
$0 for the first 4 weeks*
- Enjoy unlimited reading on winnipegfreepress.com
- Read the E-Edition, our digital replica newspaper
- Access News Break, our award-winning app
- Play interactive puzzles
*No charge for 4 weeks then price increases to the regular rate of $19.00 plus GST every four weeks. Offer available to new and qualified returning subscribers only. Cancel any time.
Monthly Digital Subscription
$4.75/week*
- Enjoy unlimited reading on winnipegfreepress.com
- Read the E-Edition, our digital replica newspaper
- Access News Break, our award-winning app
- Play interactive puzzles
*Billed as $19 plus GST every four weeks. Cancel any time.
To continue reading, please subscribe:
Add Free Press access to your Brandon Sun subscription for only an additional
$1 for the first 4 weeks*
*Your next subscription payment will increase by $1.00 and you will be charged $16.99 plus GST for four weeks. After four weeks, your payment will increase to $23.99 plus GST every four weeks.
Read unlimited articles for free today:
or
Already have an account? Log in here »
Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 10/10/2014 (4048 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Left-winger Evander Kane, who was knocked out of Thursday’s season-opener by an early collision with teammate Mark Scheifele, is unlikely to play again this weekend for the Winnipeg Jets.
Jets coach Paul Maurice said today after the team’s short practice at SAP Center that he had no update to give reporters on Kane.
“No I can’t,” the coach said. “But I will have a better idea by this afternoon. So we have to wait for all the tests to come back.”
About the weekend, Maurice said: “I don’t know but my expectation is no. I would not list him as day-to-day right now.”
Team spokesmen said later the club would not be making any more statements today on Kane’s condition, so the next chance for any information is likely to come at Saturday morning’s game-day skate prior to the evening contest against the San Jose Sharks.
In Kane’s absence in Thursday’s 6-2 victory in Phoenix, Maurice used a jumble of lines and linemates, but one combination he used more than once had Dustin Byfuglien moving into Kane’s spot with Scheifele and Blake Wheeler.
Byfuglien had a goal and was plus-three and Wheeler had two goals and an assist.
In Byfuglien’s place on the third line with Mathieu Perreault and Adam Lowry, it looked in practice like it will be Matt Halischuk, but the coach would not confirm that today.
Also today, winger Michael Frolik skipped practice. The coach called it a maintenance day.
Maurice also said Ondrej Pavelec will start in goal against the Sharks after winning Thursday’s game with 26 saves.
On adding Byfuglien to the Scheifele-Wheeler duo, Maurice was more than enthusiastic after today’s practice.
“So that would be one of the lines I played with all summer, that I thought there would be some … you’ve got great speed,” he said. “With Evander there, they look a certain way. You wonder how much speed does one line need.
“And Buff is a lot quicker than he looks. He’s just so big sometimes that you don’t realize how fast he’s moving down the wall. Buff really has the ability to hang onto the puck. Mark’s good at that, too, but Buff can really hang onto it. So it buys the guys a little bit more time to get into holes and to move off people and then it’s a big line. It got bigger. So I like that line a lot.”
tim.campbell@freepress.mb.ca
