Rangers center Kevin Hayes will be sidelined two to three weeks with with a lower-body injury — apparently a left leg or knee issue — suffered in Sunday’s matinee in Detroit.
The team made the announcement Monday after an MRI.
Hayes, who has 35 points this season, played 8:41 Sunday but did not return for the third period against the Red Wings. Hayes was involved in a knee-on-knee collision with a Red Wing player late in the second period.
After the game, coach Alain Vigneault called it a ‘’lower-body” injury and that Hayes would be examined by doctors in New York today.