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Carolina Hurricanes president and common supervisor Don Waddell introduced that winger Andrei Svechnikov will endure surgical procedure to restore a torn ACL in his proper knee on Thursday morning. As a consequence, Svechnikov will miss the rest of the 2022-23 common season in addition to your entire Stanley Cup Playoffs.
“After additional session with world consultants on this subject, it has been decided that the perfect plan of action for Andrei’s future is to have this surgical procedure, and to have it accomplished by our workforce orthopedist, Dr. Marty Isbell,” Waddell stated in a press release. “We’re assured that Andrei will make a full restoration.”
Svechnikov suffered the damage throughout the second interval of Saturday’s 4-0 loss towards the Vegas Golden Knights. The 22-year-old did return to play within the third interval, however the workforce acknowledged on Monday that they feared that Svechnikov could have suffered a torn ACL and had been awaiting additional testing to substantiate the damage.
Svechnikov presently ranks third on the Hurricanes in each factors (55) and targets (23) in 64 video games this season. The Carolina ahead represented the Hurricanes in his first profession All-Star Game look final month. In 5 seasons with the Hurricanes, Svechnikov has recorded 112 targets and 152 assists in 347 profession video games.
The damage to Svechnikov is simply the most recent brutal blow to a Hurricanes workforce that had Stanley Cup aspirations coming into the 2022-23 season. Fellow winger Max Pacioretty missed the primary 4 months of the season as he recovered from an Achilles damage. Pacioretty returned to the ice on Jan. 5, however he suffered a torn Achilles as soon as once more on Jan. 19 towards the Minnesota Wild and was misplaced for the season.
The Hurricanes are presently tied for first place within the Metropolitan Division (94 factors) with the New Jersey Devils.
