Arriving through the end of the season as healthy as possible is perhaps the highest priority at this time for the islanders, but they could not verify that box on Sunday.
Adam Pelech left the team’s 1-0 victory over the Devils in the second period after a check at Paul Cotter’s head and did not return, with the islanders citing an injury at the top of the body.
“I don’t have any update for Pelly, but that’s the son of the blow we don’t like,” said coach Patrick Roy. “Child of Hit that we don’t want to happen for any game.”
Cotter received a penalty for the coup, which left Pelech with a bloody face.
The defense was boiling after the work, hitting his helmet to the ice and shouting Cotter.
Pelech has a brain shock history, which makes it more worrying if it is a head injury.
21 games had already been lost this season, 20 with a broken jaw suffered in November and one with a right -footed problem that arose after blocking a shot.
The last time of 30 years he achieved a full season in 2021-22, when he made his only star game.
If you can’t enter any of the last two games this season, there are some options at the back -end to replace it.
The club could choose to give another attempt to Adam Boqvist, or give Mike Reilly what would probably be a swan song as island, with the defender the last time he played on March 26. Scott Perunovich, who sat from March 1, could look.
Ilya Sorokin said there were no consultations to sit the rest of the season as caution after beer of her injury at the bottom of the body.
“When doctors say I’m ready, I’m ready,” he said. “No matter how many games [are left] or not in playoffs. You should play if you can play. “
The AHL spent the leader of the bride Cole Bardreau for six games, Tyce Thompson for three games and Chris Terry for two games after an incident in Saturday’s match against Hartford. Bardreau and Thompson were suspended for leaving the duration of the bank a fight, Terry’s suspension exceeded a party penalty to cut.
The Baby Islands have three games in their season and sit in the last place.