Kraken Defenseman Ryan Lindgren Exits Blowout Loss With Upper-Body Injury
Daily Faceoff reported the injury exit during the game.
There are bad nights at the rink, and then there is whatever the Seattle Kraken are currently enduring against the .
In the middle of a 5-0 home-ice beatdown, Kraken defenseman Ryan Lindgren was forced to leave the game with an upper-body injury.
Daily Faceoff reported the exit, triggering the usual wave of panic for a player who historically treats blocked shots like a primary food group.
As always, the NHL's "upper-body injury" designation is hilariously vague. It could mean a bruised collarbone, a tweaked shoulder, or that his arm has completely detached from his torso. We won't know the actual severity until the team is forced to tell us.
Losing Lindgren is a brutal blow for a Seattle squad trying to find its footing early in the season. They just came off a weird stretch where they blew out the 6-1 twice, but dropped a 3-1 game to the in between.
Trailing by five goals to is already a nightmare for anyone holding a Kraken ticket. Losing a core piece of your blue line in the process turns a schedule loss into a long-term structural headache.
Seattle heads to on Friday to face the . Fantasy managers and bettors should keep a close eye on the practice reports over the next 48 hours, because if Lindgren is out, the Kraken's defensive depth is about to get a massive stress test.