In a scary incident from tonight’s game against the Edmonton Oilers and Toronto Maple Leafs, Darnell Nurse was on the receiving end of an illegal check to the head from Ryan Reaves. Reaves was given a five-minute major penalty on the play and was ejected from tonight’s contest.
Nurse was visibly shaken up after the hit and was bleeding from his head. The Oilers quickly announced that Nurse wouldn’t return to tonight’s game. Nurse will likely miss some time which hasn’t happened in his career since the 2021-22 NHL season.
It’s also likely that Reaves will face some supplementary discipline from the NHL’s Department of Player Safety. Reaves has been suspended three times in his career with the most recent suspension coming in the 2021 Stanley Cup playoffs while a member of the Vegas Golden Knights.
Other injury notes:
- The Columbus Blue Jackets should get a jolt to their 14th-ranked offense next week. Aaron Portzline of The Athletic reports that Kent Johnson will return next week from his shoulder injury. Johnson was off to a solid start to the 2024-25 campaign with two goals and five points in four contests before succumbing to the shoulder injury on October 17th.
- The Montreal Canadiens announced that defenseman David Savard wouldn’t participate in tonight’s matchup against the Blue Jackets because of an upper-body injury. He was present with the team in today’s practice and wasn’t ruled out until after warm-ups. He’s managed four assists in 17 games on the year and will miss his first game of the season.
- Just before taking the ice against the Los Angeles Kings, the Detroit Red Wings announced Simon Edvinsson wouldn’t be in the lineup due to a lower-body injury. The injury is likely connected to Edvinsson taking a shot off the foot in last night’s loss against the Anaheim Ducks. It’s a major loss for the Red Wings on their blue line with Edvinsson leading all Detroit defensemen with a 48.6% CorsiFor% on the year.
How was bleeding from the head after the hit, where Nurse had to leave the game, NOT a ten-minute match penalty?
It was. 5 and a game.
Re: Wings
After losing to a struggling Ducks team, then a miserable effort at LA, and now on Monday the hapless Wings go against the West’s new bottom dwellers, the Sharks. Wonder how much more miserable can the Wings look when losing to both of the West’s last place teams on the same road trip.
Thinking the Wings will spend another season fighting tooth and nail to stay out of the bottom four teams in all of the NHL. Hate to say it, but something has gone very wrong in Detroit.
Continuing with the Wings. I see Jake Walman traded to Sharks by Detroit, has generated 10 points on a poorly performing team, while Wing’s top D Seider also has 10 points. In fact Wings D have 22 pints so far while Sharks have 27 points from their D. What could have been gained from dumping Walman to Sharks by Detroit?