Tampa Bay Lightning right-winger Nikita Kucherov will be sidelined in the immediate future due to an undisclosed injury.
"It's definitely not a day-to-day thing, so we'll wait until we get an official word, but he's definitely out," Lightning head coach Jon Cooper told reporters Monday. "He's going to be out for a while here. We're not going to put a timetable on it until we get an official word. In the short term here he's definitely out."
Any injury to Kucherov is sure to raise concern considering he missed the entire 2020-21 regular season with a hip injury.