Slafkovsky out vs. Stars due to injury
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Montreal Canadiens rookie Juraj Slafkovsky is not in the lineup Saturday against the Dallas Stars.
Slafkovsky is day-to-day with what the Canadiens are calling an upper-body injury.
It's unclear how and when the first overall pick in this year's draft got hurt. The 18-year-old scored his first NHL goal in a win over the Arizona Coyotes on Thursday.
Slafkovsky played 14:26 in that game, his largest workload of the first five contests of his career. The Slovakian took only one shot on goal in his NHL debut and then none over the next three games before logging three Thursday night.
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