Juraj Slafkovský will not play the whole season. Montreal announced the unpleasant news | Sports.sk

Slovakian hockey player Juraj Slafkovský will miss the Montreal Canadiens for at least a week due to an upper body injury. The NHL club announced this on Tuesday on their official Twitter account.

Slafkovski missed Monday’s practice with an injury, as did defenseman Mike Matheson, who has upper-body soreness. The Beijing 2022 bronze medalist and the Olympic tournament’s most valuable player trained alone on Tuesday morning, leaving the ice before the team trained together.

Montreal will miss Wednesday night’s home game against the New York Rangers, and will also miss this weekend’s duel with St. Louis. Louis and Philadelphia.

The Slovakian striker scored one goal and five assists in the first six duels of the season. The Canadiens will reassess the health of the 2022 draft pick in a week, CBC Sports reported. When he is present, Kirby Dach will take the position on the wing of the first attack.

Finn Oliver Kapanen will move to the middle of the second attack, Michael Pezzetta should make his debut against NY Rangers.