"He'll be ready," Carolina general manager Don Waddell said Monday. "He's actually feeling very good. He's doing treatment right now. It's basically a sprain that he had. We did both X-rays and an MRI and they showed nothing, nothing more than a sprain."
Svechnikov was injured when he got tangled with Bruins defenseman Zdeno Chara in front of the net in Game 3 of the best-of-7 series, which Boston ended with a 2-1 win in Game 5 on Wednesday in Toronto, the hub city for the East.
The No. 2 pick in the 2018 NHL Draft, Svechnikov was third on the Hurricanes with 61 points (24 goals, 37 assists) in 68 regular-season games. He led Carolina with four goals and was second on the Hurricanes with seven points in six postseason games (Sebastian Aho, 12).
"Those high ankle sprains, they can be one week, they can be five weeks," Waddell said. "He's doing treatment right now. He's actually walking very good. I saw him in the last day or so and he said he's feeling good, so no reason to think he won't be ready."
The NHL has not announced a start date for next season.
Waddell also said defenseman Brett Pesce was getting close to being ready to play before Carolina's season ended. Pesce had surgery on his right shoulder March 5 after being injured against the Toronto Maple Leafs on Feb. 22.
"He's right on target," Waddell said. "It was basically a six-month injury, which was right about today, or I should say next week. He's been skating. … He would have been ready not the next round but possibly the third or, for sure, in the [Stanley Cup Final] if we had gotten that far and we needed him. So it looks like he'll be ready to roll."
Pesce scored 18 points (four goals, 14 assists) in 61 games this season. He had six assists in 15 Stanley Cup Playoff games during the Hurricanes' run to the Eastern Conference Final last season.
