ARLINGTON, Va. — First, Alex Ovechkin was day to day. Then he was week to week.
Now the latest, courtesy Capitals coach Bruce Boudreau: “Hopefully it’s no more than two weeks.”
The league’s two-time reigning MVP has the most serious injury of his NHL career, an “upper-body strain” that could test just how good the Capitals can be this season.
Ovechkin, who did not practice Tuesday, has missed only four games — just two because of injury — since coming to the NHL in 2005. Game No. 5 comes tonight at New Jersey.
Footnotes.
Alberta health officials have begun an investigation into why swine flu shots were “inappropriately diverted” to the Flames while thousands had to stand in line for hours Friday for the vaccine.
• The Coyotes recalled forward Mikkel Boedker from their minor-league affiliate in San Antonio.
Also, final papers have been signed closing the sale of the bankrupt Coyotes to the NHL. In all, the NHL paid about $140 million for the team.
The Associated Press
