The official news on T.J. Oshie, as Washington Capitals head coach Todd Reirden hinted at the other day, is not good.
The Capitals announced on Sunday morning that Oshie will be out indefinitely after undergoing surgery on his fractured right clavicle. The forward suffered the injury during Game 4 after taking a shove from Warren Foegele of the Carolina Hurricanes.
Oshie has been ruled out indefinitely. The Washington Post reported on Saturday that “indefinitely” means “for the remainder of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.”
Foegele was given a two-minute minor for boarding and did not receive any supplemental discipline from the NHL Department of Player Safety.
“I was trying to lift his stick, trying to give him a little nudge,” Foegele said. “It was a little unfortunate play there, I wasn’t trying to hurt him or anything. I hope he’s OK.”
“It’s a dirty play,” Ovechkin said after Game 4. “It has to be not two minutes. It has to be a different call.”
So no Oshie for the Capitals and possibly no Andrei Svechnikov for the Hurricanes in Monday’s Game 6 (7 p.m. ET; NBCSN; Live stream) with a Round 2 berth on the line for Washington, who are up 3-2 in the series.
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