Carolina Hurricanes centre Jordan Staal has left Sunday’s game against the Florida Panthers with an upper-body injury and will not return.
Staal didn’t play in the final seven minutes of the first period and wasn’t on the bench for the second.
The 28-year-old has five goals and four assists in 21 games this season, his fifth with the Hurricanes.
The Thunder Bay, Ont., native is in the fourth year of a 10-year, $60-million contract.
