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Report: Sabres’ Kyle Okposo, former Islander, released from hospital

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Buffalo Sabres forward Kyle Okposo, who has been in the neuro intensive care unit of Buffalo General Medical Center, was released from the hospital, according a report. A Buffalo television station quoted a source saying the Sabres forward was discharged. The Sabres could not yet confirm the report.

Okposo was showing signs of improving from an undisclosed illness, a person with direct knowledge of the player’s condition told The Associated Press on Friday.

Okposo had been undergoing a battery of tests at the hospital since Sunday. He’s been sidelined since complaining of an illness hours before the Sabres game at Columbus on March 28.