Colorado captain Gabriel Landeskog will miss some time, the Avalanche said, after he was injured and needed to be helped off the ice early in the second period of what became a 2-1 loss in Florida on Sunday night.
The good news, such as it is, for the Avs might be this: "It's not his knee," forward Nathan MacKinnon said.
Landeskog, who was out for nearly three full years with chronic right knee problems before returning during last season's playoffs, is dealing now with an upper-body injury, Avs coach Jared Bednar said. The severity of the issue was not immediately released by the team, and Landeskog was still being evaluated postgame. It wasn't even clear after the game if Landeskog would be able to accompany the Avalanche to Tampa for a game there against the Lightning on Tuesday night.