Buffalo Sabres defenseman Rasmus Dahlin will take a temporary leave of absence to deal with a personal matter in Sweden, coach Lindy Ruff said Friday . There is no timetable for his return.

According to The Athletic , Dahlin will return to his home country to support his fiancée, Carolina Matovac, who is in recovery from a heart transplant.

"He said everything is OK," Ruff said. "He's got full support by our team."

Dahlin and Matovac announced in September that the latter experienced major heart failure on vacation in France this summer. She received life-saving CPR for hours at a time and was transferred to a hospital, where she remained on life support for weeks while she awaited a heart transplant. Matovac had the transplant later in the summer and eventually returned to Swed

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