Kristen Shilton, ESPN NHL reporter
Columbus Blue Jackets ahead Patrik Laine has entered the NHL/NHLPA Participant Backup Program to obtain deal with an confidential factor.
The announcement, made by means of the NHL, NHLPA and Blue Jackets’ group on Sunday, indicated Laine might be out for an indefinite length of hour week getting remedy. Laine will go back to Columbus when cleared to take action via this system’s directors.
“Patrik has our complete support, and our sole concern is his well-being,” Blue Jackets normal supervisor and change governor Jarmo Kekalainen mentioned in a remark. “Out of respect for Patrik, we will have no further comment.”
Laine, 25, were running his long ago from a fractured clavicle trauma suffered on Dec. 14 towards the Toronto Maple Leafs. He used to be with the Blue Jackets on their fresh highway travel to Western Canada with an optic on returning some time, however Laine rapidly went again to Columbus on Saturday. Trainer Pascal Vincent known as it a “setback” in Laine’s cure.
“He’s going to head back to Columbus,” mentioned Vincent. “It’s just a setback with the injury. He’s not going to be able to play on the trip, so he went back.”
There used to be refuse up to date timeline for Laine at that time, and Kekalainen mentioned on the hour that Laine’s “setback” used to be found out week at the travel.
The trauma had restricted Laine to simply 18 video games this season, with six objectives and 9 issues. He up to now neglected 9 video games in October with a concussion previous to struggling the clavicle trauma. Laine had additionally been a wholesome scratch for the primary hour in his occupation all the way through a mid-November stretch and used to be sidelined 3 video games with an weakness nearest that.
Laine has constantly struggled with trauma issues because the Blue Jackets got him by means of industry with Winnipeg in January 2021. The Jets’ 2nd general draft pick out in 2016 has seemed 479 occupation NHL video games to era with 203 objectives and 387 issues.
