SUNRISE, Fla.- Casey Nelson was back with the Buffalo Sabres for practice at BB&T Center on Monday after completing a five-game conditioning assignment in Rochester, providing a needed extra body on a day when three other defensemen were absent.
Zach Bogosian and Rasmus Ristolainen both took maintenance days. Their status for the Sabres' game against the Florida Panthers on Tuesday will be decided in the morning. Sabres coach Phil Housley also said that Marco Scandella is week-to-week with an upper-body injury.
The Sabres were also without Kyle Okposo after the forward returned to Buffalo to undergo further evaluations on an injury he sustained during a fight with New York Rangers defenseman Tony DeAngelo on Friday. Okposo had skated Sunday morning ahead of the team's game in New Jersey.
Nelson returns to practice while Okposo departs for further evaluations
Scandella week-to-week; Bogosian and Ristolainen take maintenance days
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