BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Buffalo Sabres captain Rasmus Dahlin is taking a leave of absence and returning to Sweden to take care of a personal matter.

“I will say this: he said everything is OK,” Sabres coach Lindy Ruff said Friday. “He’s got full support by our team.”

Ruff said there’s no timetable for the defenseman’s return.

Dahlin revealed in September that his fiancée, Carolina Matovac, needed a lifesaving heart transplant over the summer. He said his fiancée started feeling sick for several days during a vacation in France before her heart failed.

Dahlin said she required CPR on “multiple occasions and up to a couple of hours at a time,” and then spent weeks on life support before receiving a new heart.

Dahlin said Matovac was “on the path to a full recovery” and was rehabilitating i

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