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VANCOUVER St. Louis Blues Hoodies Authentic , British Columbia (AP) Brock Boeser will likely miss the remainder of the NHL season after the team said he will be out four to six weeks with a back injury.The star rookie left Rogers Arena on a stretcher and was taken to a hospital after a collision in the Canucks’ 4-3 overtime win over the New York Islanders on Monday.Boeser fell into an open gate at the players’ bench after trying to make a hit on Islanders forward Cal Clutterbuck.The Canucks said Tuesday that he was diagnosed with a soft-tissue injury and a nonstructural, non-displaced fracture of a transverse process in his lower back.The transverse process is a bony projection off side of a vertebra that serves as a point for ligament attachment. Each vertebrae has a transverse process on each side.The 21-year-old Boeser leads all NHL rookies with 29 goals and is second among rookies with 55 points in 62 games.— The Ottawa Senators and pending unrestricted free agent forward Matt Duchene have made progress in contract talks according to TSN's Bob McKenzie.Duchene, 27, is in the final season of a five-year St. Louis Blues Hats Authentic , $30 million contract he signed with the Colorado Avalanche. McKenzie believes an extension would be for eight years (the maximum term under the current CBA), worth around $8-9 million a season annually.Retaining Duchene should be a no-brainer for Senators GM Pierre Dorion. He's up to 10 goals and 27 points in 21 games, and is coming off a solid 59-point 2017-18 season - split with the Avalanche and Sens.advertisingOttawa surrendered a major package to get Duchene from the Avalanche last year. In a three-team trade, the Senators dealt star forward Kyle Turris to the Nashville Predators. Colorado receives prospect Shane Bowers Custom St. Louis Blues Jerseys , goalie Andrew Hammond and a 2018 or 2019 first-round pick from Ottawa.Of course, the Senators made the bold decision to retain the No. 4 pick in 2018 (they selected Brady Tkachuk), and thus give the Avalanche their 2019 first-rounder. The Sens risk losing prized prospect Jack Hughes - if that selection winds up being first overall.advertising Credit: Marc DesRosiers-USA TODAY SportsThat alone gives the front office even more incentive to try and retain Duchene long-term, given how much they sacrificed to land him. He's fit nicely in the nation's capital and has done a fine job working with younger players like Tkachuk www.officiallightningprostore.com , Colin White, Thomas Chabot and Chris Tierney.What This MeansAfter trading captain Erik Karlsson to the San Jose Sharks, the Senators became the consensus pick to finish dead-last in the NHL this season, and thus give Colorado tremendous odds of winning the draft lottery.But the Sens have played .500 hockey and are getting great production from Duchene Tampa Bay Lightning T-Shirts Authentic , Mark Stone and the other young forwards. As such, it makes perfect sense to extend Duchene and keep him around as they slowly start to reform as a contender.advertising