The New York Islanders absorbed a significant injury blow during their game on Thursday against the Anaheim Ducks at UBS Arena in Elmont, N.Y.

In the second period of the contest, New York center Bo Horvat , playing in his fourth season with the Islanders , went down with an apparent lower-body injury while trying to battle for the puck. Just when he was about to take full control of the puck, Horvat slipped and fell to the ice in pain. Expand Tweet

Horvat would later exit the game before the Islanders announced that he was done for the rest of the evening .

“Injury Update: Bo Horvat will not return to the game (lower body),” the Islanders shared via a social media post on X, formerly Twitter. Article Continues Below

Before he left the contest, the 30-year-old Horvat had two

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