Zach Werenski Could Miss Game 5 Against Toronto Maple Leafs

Columbus Blue Jackets defenseman Zach Werenski will undergo an MRI for an upper-body injury and his status for Game 5 is unknown.

Werenski was injured in the 3rd period of Game 4 against the Toronto Maple Leafs and did not return for the over-time period. He was the only defenseman to reach the 20 goal mark this season and the first to do so in a Blue Jackets jersey. Werenski is an integral part of this team and without him, closing out the series will be much more difficult.

Zach Werenski's apparent injury is a mystery. At around the 9-minute mark of the third, the Blue Jackets trainer talks with him and massages his right shoulder pic.twitter.com/JhFitL9WbN
— Omar (@TicTacTOmar) August 8, 2020