The St. Louis Blues announced that Paul Stastny is out week-to-week with a lower-body injury.
Stastny was limited to less than four minutes of ice time during last night’s 4-2 win against the Colorado Avalanche. Initially, head coach Mike Yeo indicated that the issue wasn’t serious.
There are only about three weeks left in the regular season, so it’s tough to tell if “week-to-week” would mean that the Blues will be without Stastny for any playoff time.
With Stastny out for an expended period of time and other injuries affecting Blues forwards, it sounds like Nail Yakupov gets another chance to prove himself:
#stlblues are not planning a call-up to replace Stastny, so only known healthy option is Yakupov. No update today on Lehtera or Jaskin.
— Jeremy Rutherford (@jprutherford) March 22, 2017
Stastny generated 18 goals and 40 points in 66 games so far this season. He has played more of a defensive role this season (46.2 offensive zone start percentage after being closer to 50 earlier in his Blues days) and has been impressive in the dot, winning 53.8 of his faceoffs.