Blues’ Alexey Toropchenko burns legs during home accident in NHL’s latest bizarre off-ice injury
NY Post
Alexey Toropchenko is the latest hockey player to miss time because of a bizarre off-ice injury, after the St. Louis Blues said he is considered week to week after sustaining burns to his legs as part of a home accident. No other details were provided.
“I just know it was a home accident, so we’re going to leave it at that,” coach Jim Montgomery told reporters after the team’s morning skate Monday.
Toropchenko is the third NHL player this season to get injured away from the rink, joining a dubious list of maladies over the past decade or so.
New Jersey Devils leading scorer Jack Hughes had surgery on Nov. 15 to repair a finger injury from a freak accident at dinner at a steakhouse in Chicago two nights earlier. Hughes was expected to miss roughly two months.
The team declined to reveal which finger or fingers were affected, other than to say Hughes underwent an operation at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. A photo posted on social media of Hughes dining in the city with pop star Tate McRae showed his right hand bandaged.
Hughes, the top pick in the 2019 draft who is expected to be on the U.S. Olympic team in February in Milan, missed the end of last season and the playoffs after shoulder surgery. That was a hockey injury, as Hughes went right shoulder first into the boards after getting tangled up with Vegas’ Jack Eichel during a game in early March.
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