The Vancouver Canucks are already down one crucial defenceman but you can’t help but worry when they’re down another given how Friday’s 4-3 overtime loss to the Carolina Hurricanes ended.

In overtime of the game Filip Hronek was nowhere to be seen, an odd thing given he’s the team’s most skilled offensive blueliner in the absence of captain Quinn Hughes . Hughes, of course, was a scratch from Friday’s game because of an injury, either the arm or shoulder issue he had in Tuesday’s game versus Winnipeg, or perhaps something else, like the groin aggravation he was dealing with a week ago.

After the game, head coach Adam Foote said Hronek was pulled from the game by the concussion spotter, following an ugly high hit by Carolina’s Andrei Svechnikov with just over two minutes left in the

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