However, a thunderous hit from Washington Capitals forward Tom Wilson forced him from the lineup nearly three weeks ago. On Friday, Adam Foote provided an update on the injured centre.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s gotten better,\u201d Foote said. \u201cBut he\u2019s not yet doing workouts and things like that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Foote was also asked whether Chytil had been in Vancouver throughout the duration of the injury.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s been in and out,\u201d Foote said.<\/p>\n
The injury to Chytil has been significant for this team. Newly acquired Lukas Reichel has been filling in at second-line centre since the Canucks traded for him almost two weeks ago. He\u2019s pointless in seven games, and the Canucks have been outscored 9-3 with him on the ice.<\/p>\n
Vancouver was leading Washington 3-0 when Chytil was injured on Oct. 19. They would go on to win that game, albeit barely, pushing their record to 4-2.<\/p>\n
Since then, the Canucks have won just three of nine games, and they\u2019ve failed to win in regulation since Chytil was injured.<\/p>\n
Foote did provide updates on three other players who seem closer to returning than Chytil.<\/p>\n
Based on the morning skate earlier this week, Teddy Blueger seemed closest to returning. He was out there for a portion of that skate, although he left the ice early. However, Blueger was not at practice on Friday.<\/p>\n
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Teddy Blueger has been limited to two games this season because of injury. (Bob Frid\/Imagn Images)<\/p>\n
\u201cHe wanted to be part of this practice, but he\u2019s not ready,\u201d Foote said.<\/p>\n
Like Chytil, Blueger was injured in the Oct. 19 game against the Capitals. That was also the case for Jonathan Lekkerim\u00e4ki, who is also pushing to get back.<\/p>\n
\u201cLekker is skating,\u201d Foote said. \u201cI think he\u2019s getting close.\u201d<\/p>\n
The fourth Canucks player that Foote gave an update on was Nils H\u00f6glander, who suffered an ankle injury in the team\u2019s second preseason game back in September.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s progressing ahead of schedule with what he\u2019s doing, but he\u2019s not close to a practice,\u201d Foote said.<\/p>\n
Following the injury, the team announced on Sept. 29 that H\u00f6glander would miss 8-10 weeks.<\/p>\n
The eight-week mark would be Nov. 17, which is the final date of the Canucks three-game Eastern road trip, which starts next Thursday.<\/p>\n
Vancouver returns home for a game against the Dallas Stars on Thursday, Nov. 20. That might be the earliest we see H\u00f6glander return if he doesn\u2019t travel with the team on the road next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vancouver Canucks had hopes that Filip Chytil would be a key player for them this season. And…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-268773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268773","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=268773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}