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Ankle Surgery Will Sideline Darnell Nurse For 12 Weeks

12/12/2016 at 3:05pm EST

from Kurt Leavins of the Edmonton Journal,

The Edmonton Oilers were feeling mighty good, watching highly prized D-man Darnell Nurse taking substantial steps forward this season, primarily on the left-hand side of the Oilers third pairing.

But then came the last game in Winnipeg, where Nurse left the match late, and hobbled out of the dressing room minutes later, on the shoulder of one of the Oilers training staff. Soon after, coach Todd McLelland indicated that Nurse’s absence would be “long term”. What exactly that meant did not seem immediately or abundantly clear. Personally, I was guessing that doctors were waiting for the swelling to go down before they could get an accurate assessment. But the longer it took to get word, the more worried I became.

Turns out, those fears were well-founded.

Nurse will miss the next twelve weeks of action, after undergoing surgery to repair right ankle ligament and bone damage

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