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Panthers' Ekblad leaves U20 summer development camp game with apparent injury

Bill Streicher / USA TODAY Sports

Florida Panthers defenseman Aaron Ekblad, the number one overall pick at the 2014 NHL Entry Draft, left a U20 summer development camp game between Team Canada and Czech Republic World Junior hopefuls with an apparent injury on Tuesday night. 

The top defenseman, gassed after an icing kept him on the ice, attempted to the enter the zone and was sandwiched by a pair of Czech defenders:

[By @myregularface, via hockeycanada.ca]

Ekblad left the ice slowly, appeared to be woozy, and went immediately down the tunnel. 

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