Oilers' Kane to hospital as skate blade cuts wrist

TAMPA, Fla. -- Edmonton guardant Evander Kane was chopped connected the near wrist by a skate leaf Tuesday nighttime and taken to the infirmary with a frightening wounded during the Oilers' 3-2 triumph implicit the Tampa Bay Lightning.

The Oilers said Kane was successful unchangeable information and scheduled to acquisition a process Tuesday night.

"The quality that I've received truthful acold -- it's precise constricted -- is that he's successful a bully spot," Edmonton manager Jay Woodcroft said. "He's getting good taken attraction of."

Kane got tangled with Lightning defenseman Philippe Myers conscionable wrong the Edmonton antiaircraft portion and portion connected the crystal was chopped by Tampa Bay guardant Pat Maroon's skate leaf 3 minutes, 27 seconds into the 2nd period.

"You cringe erstwhile you spot that," Lightning manager Jon Cooper said. "It was pugnacious to see. Hopefully he's going to beryllium OK because, you know, hockey, you conflict against each other. It's a war, [but] we're inactive a family."

Kane grabbed the lacerated country with his close manus and rushed to the seat earlier heading for the locker room.

"It's scary, surely scary," Oilers prima Connor McDavid said. "I deliberation you could consciousness the vigor successful the full rink benignant of conscionable get sucked out. We're reasoning astir him. We're proceeding he's doing OK, but that's evidently initial."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.