Vancouver Canucks’ Ryan Kesler leaves game with injury after knee-on-knee collision in win over Winnipeg Jets

The Vancouver right-winger scored his first and second goals of an injury-marred season as the Canucks defeated the Winnipeg Jets 3-2 in a shootout Wednesday night.
But Vancouver suffered another injury blow when centre Ryan Kesler left the game in the second period after a knee-on-knee collision with Jets centre Jim Slater.
Canucks head coach John Tortorella said Kesler will be sent back to Vancouver for tests while his teammates keep travelling to games against Washington, Florida and Tampa Bay.

“He’s going to get some imaging and we’ll have a better indication of where he’s at, but he’s out for a while,” Tortorella said.
Slater said he didn’t intentionally try to hurt Kesler.
“I thought I had him lined up, he kind of bailed there at the last second there,” Slater said. “I didn’t stick my knee out or anything in his path, wasn’t leading with my leg. I thought I actually took the worst of it.