The Washington Capitals introduced Thursday night that additional exams on a leg harm to workforce captain Alex Ovechkin revealed a fracture in his left fibula. The 39-year previous franchise nice, who has been positioned on injured reserve, is now anticipated to overlook four-to-six weeks recovering.

Ovechkin was injured Monday night time within the Capitals’ sport towards Utah after a shin-to-shin collision with Jack McBain, happening in ache after which making an attempt to skate issues off earlier than exiting the sport. Initially, Ovechkin had been listed as week-to-week along with his harm earlier than additional testing. In his nineteenth season, the 39-year previous from Moscow has confirmed remarkably sturdy all through his NHL profession, as he had missed simply 35 video games because of harm previous to this incident.

Ovechkin leads the NHL with 15 targets scored over his first 18 video games, which had put him nicely on tempo to break Wayne Gretzky’s NHL document of 894 targets. He’s as much as 868 profession targets and desires 27 extra to surpass Gretzky and cement his legacy as one of many NHL’s best scorers ever.

The Capitals will now have to hold on with out Ovechkin for the foreseeable future, as they are going to proceed their season Thursday night time towards the Colorado Avalanche.