Canes’ Nestrasil to miss remainder of season

The Carolina Hurricanes announced Tuesday that forward Andrej Nestrasil will miss the remainder of the 2015-16 season with a fractured vertebra.

Nestrasil, 25, suffered the injury Thursday in the road game at Toronto when he sustained a hit and fell awkwardly into the boards.

Nestrasil set NHL career highs this season in games played (55), goals (9), assists (14) and points (23). Playing on a line with center Jordan Staal and Joakim Nordstrom that had become the Canes’ most productive, he had four goals and 10 assists in a 20-game stretch from Jan. 8-Feb. 23 before the injury.

Nestrasil is in his second season with Carolina after being claimed on waivers from Detroit on Nov. 20, 2014.

This story was originally published March 1, 2016 at 10:55 AM with the headline "Canes’ Nestrasil to miss remainder of season."