Are you superstitious?
It's probably nothing, but the cryptic injury status of Coyotes defenseman Oliver Ekman-Larsson — announced on Friday the 13th — is the last thing Coyotes fans wanted to hear at the start of training camp.
Coyotes President of Hockey Operations and General Manager John Chayka pulled reporters aside on Friday — the club's first organized skating day of training camp — and announced that Ekman-Larsson was day-to-day after undergoing an offseason procedure to repair a previous injury.
The Coyotes, who finished third among NHL teams in man-games lost to injury last season, simply cannot afford to repeat that trend in 2019-20.