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A brutal night in New York as Rangers goaltender Igor Shesterkin was helped off the ice during Friday's game against the Capitals with what appears to be a serious lower-body injury. Shesterkin fell awkwardly in the crease during a second-period scramble and was carried off by teammates without putting any weight on his right leg. For a Rangers team built around that netminder, this one could not have come at a worse time.
Staying on the ice, Ottawa Senators forward William Eklund will miss an extended period after suffering an ankle injury on a hard hit Thursday against Philadelphia. The Senators grabbed the win, but losing Eklund for a significant stretch is a real blow to a team with genuine aspirations in the Eastern Conference this season.
Shifting to baseball, a remarkable and honestly alarming story out of Boston — Red Sox reliever Garrett Whitlock revealed he pitched through a fractured right tibia during the final month of the regular season without even knowing it. He turned in quality work down the stretch before Boston was eliminated by the Yankees in late September, and now we know just what he was quietly enduring to take the mound.
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