Kaapo Kakko can’t catch a break. Or maybe the former New York Rangers forward did just that, literally, in a preseason game Wednesday.
Kakko played just three shifts totaling 1:59 TOI before leaving the Seattle Kraken’s 4-1 win over the Edmonton Oilers with an upper-body injury.
The 24-year-old forward was slashed on his left hand by Oilers defenseman prospect Beau Akey as the pair battled for the puck along the boards. Kakko hunched over in pain, skated off the ice and didn’t return.
“Upper body, being evaluated, we’ll see what happens when we get back to Seattle,” is all Kraken coach Lane Lambert offered up about Kakko’s injury postgame.