St. Louis Blues forward Vladimir Tarasenko had his injured shoulder recently evaluated and he did not receive good news.
According to reports, the star scorer is going to have to undergo a third should surgery. The surgery is expected to take place next week and Tarsenko will not be reevaluated again until five months after the surgery.
This means that the Blues really have no idea whether they will have him back in the lineup at the start of next season. The 28-year-old forward missed almost the entirety of the 2019-2020 season because of his shoulder injury.
The injury occurred after just 10 games. After surgery, Tarasenko came back to play four games in the bubble, during which he didn’t score a single goal and didn’t look like himself.
With a third shoulder surgery coming, it’s hard to predict what his future with the team and in the NHL in general will look like.
When he was healthy, Tarsenko was one of the best scorers in the league. In the five seasons before this one, he scored 182 goals in 395 games. Only Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin and current Toronto Maple Leafs center John Tavares netted more goals in that same time period.
