Vancouver Canucks' Evander Kane suffers skate-cut scare
Ten different Vancouver Canucks players have missed time due to injury this season.
Evander Kane was one of the few who avoided getting hurt, that is, until Tuesday night.
Late in the third period of the Canucks’ 3-1 loss to the Colorado Avalanche, Kane suffered a skate cut to his wrist during a strange sequence.
Kane and Avalanche captain Gabriel Landeskog were battling for the puck right by the benches in the neutral zone. They were skating directly towards linesman Tom Toomey, who attempted to get out of the way of the play by jumping up on the Avalanche bench.
As he leaped off the ice, Landeskog bumped Kane right into Toomey, and the linseman’s skate appeared to cut the arm of the Canucks winger.
Kane immediately dropped his stick, grabbed his arm, and went straight down the tunnel.
Scary situation as #Canucks F Evander Kane gets injured in Colorado pic.twitter.com/wWmqZL7Ql5
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After the game, Canucks head coach Adam Foote provided an update on the veteran winger.
“He just had a scare,” Foote said. “I think he’s going to be fine.”
“He got a skate in the wrist area, came down on him, just a fluke. It kind of pierced him a little bit, but I don’t think it’s too deep.”
Ironically, this isn’t the first time Kane’s left wrist has been cut by a skate blade.
Three years ago, the 34-year-old’s wrist was cut by the blade of Pat Maroon’s skate. That cut was far more gruesome, and the injury forced Kane to miss more than two months.
Thankfully for Kane, he seems to have avoided serious injury this time around.
The Vancouver native has recently picked things up offensively after a slow start. Kane was third on the Canucks in November with five goals in 14 games. So far this season, he has five goals and 14 points in 27 games.