Hoping for the best and fearing the worst.

It has become an unfortunate NHL injury reality for often-concussed Vancouver Canucks centre Filip Chytil.

He has endured five career concussions and it is fair to consider what could come from the latest blow Sunday in Washington D.C. that has placed him on injury reserve. That would allow the commencement of mandatory concussion protocol before eventually returning — if that’s the diagnosis — because the Canucks were off Monday and haven’t commented on his status.

Winger Jonathan Lekkerimaki, 21, was also injured in the first period Sunday when he took the worst of a sideboards collision with Matt Roy and may have suffered an arm, shoulder, or collarbone ailment.

As for the 26-year-old Chytil, B.C. physician Dr. Harjas Grewal believes ther

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