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"EDMONTON, Alberta — If the Blues are going to get past Vancouver in the Western Conference quarterfinals, they must do it without Vladimir Tarasenko.
More daunting is the possibility that if they are to repeat as Stanley Cup champions, they might have to do so without their perennial 30-goal scorer.
After missing the last two games of the Canucks series, Tarasenko has headed back to St. Louis to have his surgically-repaired left shoulder reevaluated.
Given the four-day minimum quarantine and COVID-19 testing protocol for players leaving and then returning to a hub city, there’s no way Tarasenko can return for this series even if the shoulder checks out.
But there’s a longer-term worry about what this means to Tarasenko’s status going forward since he’s already had two surgeries on the same shoulder over the past 28 months."
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