NHL: John Tavares out for season with knee injury suffered in Sochi

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New York Islanders forward John Tavares is out for the rest of the season with a knee injury suffered at the Winter Olympics.
Tavares,
who has 66 points in 59 games so far this season, tore a medial
ligament in his knee while playing for Canada in their quarter-final win
over Latvia in Sochi.Tavares is expected to stay with Team Canada for the remainder of the Games before returning home for further evaluation.
He was injured with a big hit along the boards by Latvia's Arturs Kulda in the second period of the narrow 2-1 victory.
Only Pittsburgh's Sidney Crosby (78) and Anaheim's Ryan Getzlaf (68) scored more points than the 23-year-old before the NHL's Winter Olympics break.
Tavares' injury is not the first to affect an NHL player in Russia, giving owners another reason to want to keep their highly-paid stars at home when the next Games come around in 2018.
The Florida Panthers only sent two players to Sochi and both of them will miss time through injury; Alexander Barkov is out for a month with a knee injury and Tomas Kopecky out indefinitely after taking an elbow to the head.
Mats Zuccarello of the New York Rangers has a hand injury that ruled him out of Norway's finale against Russia.
And Detroit Red Wings and Swedish captain Henrik Zetterberg aggravated a pre-existing back injury, which the Olympic team said was a herniated disk, after his Sochi Games opener and is out indefinitely.