Coyotes defenseman Oliver Ekman-Larsson is day-to-day with a knee injury after getting helped off the ice late in Saturday's preseason loss to the Sharks.
Ekman-Larsson was looked at by team doctors Sunday, and the team announced there is no structural damage to his knee.
Ekman-Larsson was injured after getting tied up with San Jose winger Mikkel Boedker and falling to the ice awkwardly near the boards. He struggled to get up and had to be helped off the ice by a medical trainer and defenseman Alex Goligoski, as Ekman-Larsson was moving gingerly.
Already, the Coyotes are without defenseman Jakob Chychrun, who is sidelined indefinitely after undergoing surgery during the offseason to fix a knee injury that occurred during his summer training – an absence that upped the team’s urgency to acquire Jason Demers in a trade with the Panthers last week.