Jets forward Ehlers to miss start of Stanley Cup playoffs, out week to week

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Apr 15, 2025 4:31 PM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago

Winnipeg Jets guardant Nikolaj Ehlers volition miss the commencement of the Stanley Cup playoffs with a close ft injury.

Jets caput manager Scott Arniel said Tuesday that Ehlers is out week to week aft re-aggravating an existing injury.

Ehlers collided with an authoritative successful a crippled against Chicago connected Saturday and had to beryllium helped disconnected the ice.

The 29-year-old has 24 goals and 63 points successful 69 games this season.

The Jets mightiness beryllium getting immoderate reinforcements soon. Forward Gabe Vilardi skated Tuesday and is considered day-to-day. He hasn't played since March 23 with an upper-body injury.

The Jets, who won their archetypal Presidents' Trophy past week aft clinching the league's champion regular-season record, are inactive waiting to larn their first-round playoff opponent.

Landeskog past played successful June 2022

Gabriel Landeskog has rejoined the Colorado Avalanche aft taking portion successful a two-game minor-league rehab assignment.

The squad said Tuesday the captain's conditioning indebtedness to the American Hockey League's Colorado Eagles was terminated. He played games for the Eagles connected Friday and Saturday successful the latest measurement toward a instrumentality from a genu wounded that has led to 2 surgeries and caused him to miss the past 3 regular seasons.

Last play was the archetypal clip the 32-year-old Landeskog has played successful a nonrecreational crippled since hoisting the Stanley Cup successful precocious June 2022. It was a palmy minor-league stint for Landeskog, too, filled with hard checks, tumbles to the ice, a scrum wherever helium enactment a subordinate successful a headlock and adjacent a goal.

He told reporters aft Saturday's crippled his genu feels "really good."

"Obviously, I've been skating for a agelong clip now, and I've been moving connected each nuances of skating," helium added. "It's 1 happening to beryllium connected the crystal and skate and bash definite drills, but it's different 1 to bash it successful a crippled -- crippled velocity and crippled intensity.

"I cognize I enactment the enactment in. I cognize I've enactment my clip successful and present this weekend, I've gotten a accidental to conscionable not enactment it to the trial but instrumentality the adjacent measurement and conscionable spot my grooming -- spot wherever my knee's at, and it's been feeling truly good."

The Swedish guardant could beryllium activated arsenic soon arsenic the extremity of the regular play to play this play successful Game 1 of the Avalanche's first-round playoff bid against the Dallas Stars.

His instrumentality is simply a large boost for Colorado, particularly fixed the hard way done the Western Conference.

"Not anyplace adjacent wherever I privation it to be," Landeskog said aft his show Saturday. "But I deliberation it's a bully measurement successful the close direction."

Nurse faces subject for cross-check

Edmonton Oilers defenceman Darnell Nurse volition person a proceeding with the NHL section of subordinate information connected Tuesday, 1 time aft his cross-check connected Los Angeles Kings guardant Quinton Byfield.

Nurse lowered the roar connected Byfield with 5:24 remaining successful the 2nd play connected Monday. The Kings went connected to clinch the No. 2 effect successful the Pacific Division with a 5-0 triumph against the Oilers astatine Rogers Place.

Nurse was whistled for a five-minute large punishment for cross-checking and a crippled misconduct for the deed connected Byfield, who did not instrumentality to the contest.

"No update," Kings caput manager Jim Hiller said of Byfield's condition. "He wasn't capable to finish, that's all. It doesn't substance however I saw it."

The Oilers and Kings are acceptable to quadrate disconnected for the 4th consecutive play successful the archetypal circular of the Western Conference playoffs.

Nurse, 30, has recorded 33 points (five goals, 28 assists) successful 76 games this season.

Byfield, 22, scored a power-play extremity successful the archetypal play to boost his constituent full to 54 (23 goals, 31 assists) successful 80 games this season.