Vancouver Canucks right winger Ilya Mikheyev has a lower-body injury and is week-to-week, the team announced Tuesday.
Mikheyev was hit awkwardly into the boards in the first pre-season game against the Calgary Flames, and did not return to the game.
The team will be without two top-nine forwards to start the season as Brock Boeser will also be out, rehabbing a hand injury which required surgery.
The 27-year-old Mikheyev, who scored 21 goals and 11 assists in 53 games last season with the Toronto Maple Leafs, signed a four-year, $19 million contract with the Canucks in free agency.
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