GLENDALE, Ariz. — A setback already has happened once, so Rick Nash is doing what he can not to let it happen again.
The Rangers’ star winger missed his fourth straight game with a nagging groin injury when his team beat the Coyotes, 6-3, on Thursday night at Gila River Arena. Yet if there was any hope Nash would play on Saturday in Denver for the team’s New Year’s Eve contest against the Avalanche, he squashed that idea.
After a light twirl on the ice Thursday morning, Nash said he wasn’t planning on practicing with the team in Arizona on Friday afternoon — before practice was cancelled — adding he was “a while away from that.