The Vancouver Canucks are dealing with several injuries as they prepare to play the Nashville Predators on Thursday night in Nashville.
The most serious and concerning is to Filip Chytil.
The center, 26, may have suffered the sixth concussion of his career in the first period of Sunday's 4-3 road win over the Washington Capitals on a legal hit (to the chest) by Tom Wilson.
The seemingly woozy Chytil was helped from the ice, did not return to the game and was placed on injured reserve retroactive to Oct. 19 on Monday.
"I've been kept up to date by the team every day, and he is being monitored. We are always very concerned after a significant bodycheck like this one," Chytil's agent J.P. Berry wrote in an email to The Province.
There has been speculation that Chytil's career is in jeopa