{"id":157350,"date":"2025-09-20T16:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T16:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/157350\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T16:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T16:10:07","slug":"nhl-status-report-slavin-yet-to-skate-with-hurricanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/157350\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Status Report: Slavin yet to skate with Hurricanes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carolina Hurricanes<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/jaccob-slavin-8476958\" title=\"Jaccob Slavin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jaccob Slavin<\/a> has not skated at camp for precautionary reasons, but coach Rod Brind&#8217;Amour said there&#8217;s no cause for concern for the defenseman. &#8220;He trains pretty hard in the summer, and he was feeling a little sore,&#8221; Brind&#8217;Amour said Thursday. &#8220;Until he says he&#8217;s 100 percent, we&#8217;re not going to put him out there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay Lightning<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/andrei-vasilevskiy-8476883\" title=\"Andrei Vasilevskiy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrei Vasilevskiy<\/a> did not practice Saturday after missing a scrimmage on Friday. &#8220;It&#8217;s player management so he&#8217;ll be out probably a few days, latest hopefully a week and then he&#8217;ll be back in there,&#8221; coach Jon Cooper said. The coach also said there is no concern the goalie would not be ready for the start of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Buffalo Sabres<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/alex-tuch-8477949\" title=\"Alex Tuch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Tuch<\/a> (undisclosed injury) participated in practice prior to a scrimmage on Saturday, but did not play in the scrimmage. The forward is expected to return to practice in full on Monday but likely won&#8217;t play in their preseason opener that night against the Columbus Blue Jackets. Goalie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/ukko-pekka-luukkonen-8480045\" title=\"Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen<\/a> (lower body) is progressing and the team is hopeful he can return to practice next week.<\/p>\n<p>Utah Mammoth<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/alex-kerfoot-8477021\" title=\"Alex Kerfoot\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Kerfoot<\/a> is week to week with a lower-body injury. It is uncertain if the forward will play in the preseason. Utah opens the regular season at the Colorado Avalanche on Oct. 9<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota Wild<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/mats-zuccarello-8475692\" title=\"Mats Zuccarello\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mats Zuccarello<\/a> could be out for the start of the season. General manager Bill Guerin said &#8220;something came up&#8221; and did not know if the forward would need surgery. The Wild open the regular season at the St. Louis Blues on Oct. 9.<\/p>\n<p>New York Islanders<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/semyon-varlamov-8473575\" title=\"Semyon Varlamov\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Semyon Varlamov<\/a> is skating and making progress from a lower-body injury that&#8217;s kept the goalie out since Nov. 29, but there is no timetable on when he&#8217;ll rejoin the Islanders for group sessions. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/pierre-engvall-8478115\" title=\"Pierre Engvall\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pierre Engvall<\/a> had offseason hip surgery and is expected to join the group in the next 2-3 weeks. The forward was helped off the ice with 3:04 remaining in the third period of a 4-3 shootout loss to the Philadelphia Flyers on April 12. He returned to the bench during overtime but did not play.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Blackhawks<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/laurent-brossoit-8476316\" title=\"Laurent Brossoit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Laurent Brossoit<\/a> is out long term after having offseason hip surgery. General manager Kyle Davidson was unsure of the timeline other than the goalie is month to month. Brossoit signed a two-year contract with the Blackhawks on July 1, 2024, but has yet to play for them. This is his third procedure since then.<\/p>\n<p>New Jersey Devils<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/johnathan-kovacevic-8480192\" title=\"Johnathan Kovacevic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Johnathan Kovacevic<\/a> is out indefinitely after the defenseman had offseason knee surgery. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/stefan-noesen-8476474\" title=\"Stefan Noesen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stefan Noesen<\/a> will miss some time coming off a procedure for a preexisting groin injury the forward reaggravated late in the summer. Goalie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/jacob-markstrom-8474593\" title=\"Jacob Markstrom\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacob Markstrom<\/a> did not participate in the first day of training camp on Thursday because of personal\/family reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carolina Hurricanes Jaccob Slavin has not skated at camp for precautionary reasons, but coach Rod Brind&#8217;Amour said there&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-157350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}