Alexey Toropchenko is the latest hockey player to miss time because of a bizarre off-ice injury, after the St. Louis Blues said he is considered week to week after sustaining burns to his legs as part of a home accident. No other details were provided.
“I just know it was a home accident, so we’re going to leave it at that,” coach Jim Montgomery told reporters after the team's morning skate Monday.
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Boston Bruins right wing David Pastrnak (88) shoots the puck against the San Jose Sharks during the second period of an NHL hockey game in San Jose, Calif., Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
FILE - Florida Panthers center Eetu Luostarinen raises the Stanley Cup trophy after defeating the Edmonton Oilers in Game 6 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Final June 17, 2025, in Sunrise, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)
FILE - New Jersey Devils center Jack Hughes looks on during the first period of an NHL hockey game against the Los Angeles Kings, Nov. 1, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jessie Alcheh, File)
FILE - St. Louis Blues forward Alexei Toropchenko skates during an NHL hockey game against the Columbus Blue Jackets in Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Paul Vernon, File)
Toropchenko is the third NHL player this season to get injured away from the rink, joining a dubious list of maladies over the past decade or so.
New Jersey Devils leading scorer Jack Hughes had surgery on Nov. 15 to repair a finger injury from a freak accident at dinner at a steakhouse in Chicago two nights earlier. Hughes was expected to miss roughly two months.
The team declined to reveal which finger or fingers were affected, other than to say Hughes underwent an operation at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. A photo posted on social media of Hughes dining in the city with pop star Tate McRae showed his right hand bandaged.
Hughes, the top pick in the 2019 draft who is expected to be on the U.S. Olympic team in February in Milan, missed the end of last season and the playoffs after shoulder surgery. That was a hockey injury, as Hughes went right shoulder first into the boards after getting tangled up with Vegas' Jack Eichel during a game in early March.
The two-time defending Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers are bidding for a threepeat and going through a stretch without Eetu Luostarinen after coach Paul Maurice said the Finnish center was out because of "a barbequing mishap.”
Luostarinen was listed as week to week after Maurice announced the injury on Nov. 19. The team did not seem to have a concrete timeline for when Luostarinen might be ready to return.
In between the time the NHL paused its season because of the pandemic in March 2020 and resumed to hold the playoffs in quarantined bubbles that summer, the Washington Capitals lost the services of goaltender Ilya Samsonov.
According to reports in Russia, Samsonov fell off an all-terrain vehicle in Magnitogorsk and injured his neck and back. He played two more seasons with the Capitals before bouncing around to Toronto and Vegas and landing back home in the KHL for this season.
The Boston Bruins' long 2019 playoff run had plenty of drama even before captain Zdeno Chara broke his jaw in the Stanley Cup Final against St. Louis. Winger David Pastrnak injured his left thumb in a fall while walking to his transportation after a sponsorship dinner in February, the team said.
Pastrnak had a tendon procedure and missed more than a month. Only Tampa Bay's Steven Stamkos had more points than Pastrnak's 15 from the time he returned until the end of the season and recently scored his 400th career regular-season goal.
Veteran forward Dustin Penner missed a Los Angeles Kings game in January 2012 after throwing his back out while eating pancakes his wife made that morning. Penner called it an isolated incident and hoped it would not become chronic.
“Woke up fine, sat down to eat and it locked right up,” Penner told the Kings website at the time. “It never happened to me before. I couldn’t stand up.”
Penner practiced the next day, got back in the lineup for the next game and only missed five the rest of the season. He had 11 points on the Kings' run to their first Stanley Cup championship in franchise history.
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Boston Bruins right wing David Pastrnak (88) shoots the puck against the San Jose Sharks during the second period of an NHL hockey game in San Jose, Calif., Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
FILE - Florida Panthers center Eetu Luostarinen raises the Stanley Cup trophy after defeating the Edmonton Oilers in Game 6 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Final June 17, 2025, in Sunrise, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)
FILE - New Jersey Devils center Jack Hughes looks on during the first period of an NHL hockey game against the Los Angeles Kings, Nov. 1, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jessie Alcheh, File)
FILE - St. Louis Blues forward Alexei Toropchenko skates during an NHL hockey game against the Columbus Blue Jackets in Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Paul Vernon, File)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Additional police were sent to Providence schools on Tuesday to reassure worried parents that their kids will be safe with the Brown University shooter on the loose and no indication yet that investigators have zeroed in on a suspect.
Authorities on Monday released several new videos of the man suspected in Saturday's mass shooting inside of a Brown classroom, which killed two students and wounded nine others. On Tuesday, Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha told MS Now that an “enhanced photograph” would soon be released.
“We have a good picture of the gunman's route, but it's not complete yet,” he said.
After releasing a person of interest in the case because the evidence pointed elsewhere, they once again pleaded with the public for any tips that might help them catch the attacker.
Tensions remain high in Providence. Ten state troopers were assigned to support the local police sent to beef up security at schools, district Superintendent Javier Montañez said.
“We recognize that the tragic incident at Brown University, occurring so close to where many of our students and families live and learn, is deeply unsettling and frightening,” he wrote in an email to parents.
With the investigation in its third day Monday, officers were still knocking on doors and poring through dumpsters and backyards near the Ivy League campus in search of additional video evidence or other clues.
But some locals expressed defiance.
“Of course it feels scary. But at the same time, I think that if the person really wanted to scare us, we shouldn’t allow him or her to win," said Tatjana Stojanovic, a Providence parent who lives next door to the Brown campus. "Despite all of that, we should just go about our lives. I mean, obviously, you cannot forget this. But I think we shouldn’t cower and just sort of stop living despite what has happened.
In the five videos authorities have released of the suspect, he was wearing a mask or his face was turned. The FBI described him as about 5 feet, 8 inches (173 centimeters) tall, with a stocky build.
The attack and the shooter's escape have raised questions about campus security, including a lack of security cameras, and led to calls for better locks on campus doors. Others pushed back, though, saying such efforts do little to address the real issue.
“The issue isn’t the doors, it’s the guns,” said Zoe Kass, a senior who fled the engineering building as police stormed in Saturday. “And all of this, like, ‘Oh, the doors need to be locked.’ I get it, parents are scared. But any of us could have opened the door for the guy if the doors had been locked.”
After spending of her life in schools where every door was locked and school shootings continued to persist, Kass said such security measures only created “the illusion of safety.”
Meanwhile, details have emerged about the victims, who were in the first-floor classroom in the school's engineering building studying for a final.
Only one of the wounded students had been released as of Sunday, Brown President Christina Paxson said. One was in critical condition and the other seven were in critical but stable condition.
One of the wounded students, 18-year-old freshman Spencer Yang of New York City, told the New York Times and the Brown Daily Herald that there was a mad scramble after the gunman entered the room. Many students ran toward the front, but Yang said he wound up on the ground between some seats and was shot in the leg. He expected to be discharged within days.
Jacob Spears, 18, a freshman from Evans, Georgia, was shot in the stomach, “but through sheer adrenaline and courage, he managed to run outside, where he was aided by others," according to a GoFundMe site organized for him.
Ella Cook, a 19-year-old sophomore who was one of the two students killed, was vice president of the Brown College Republicans and was beloved in her church in Birmingham, Alabama. In announcing her death Sunday, the Rev. R. Craig Smalley described her as “an incredible grounded, faithful, bright light” who encouraged and “lifted up those around her.”
The other student killed was, MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, an 18-year-old freshman from Brandermill, Virginia, who was majoring in biochemistry and neuroscience. His family immigrated to the U.S. from Uzbekistan when he was a kid.
As a child, Umurzokov suffered a neurological condition that required surgery, and he later wore a back brace because of scoliosis, his sister Samira Umurzokova told The Associated Press by phone. He knew from an early age that he wanted to be a neurosurgeon to help others like him.
“He had so many hardships in his life, and he got into this amazing school and tried so hard to follow through with the promise he made when was 7 years old,” she said.
Contributing were Associated Press journalists Jennifer McDermott and Matt O'Brien in Providence; Brian Slodysko in Washington; Michael Casey in Boston; Patrick Whittle in Portland, Maine; John Seewer in Toledo, Ohio; Kathy McCormack in Concord, New Hampshire; and Heather Hollingsworth in Mission, Kansas.
Visitors kneel at a makeshift memorial for the shooting victims outside the Engineering Research Center at Brown University, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, in Providence, R.I.(AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Photos of Brown University shooting victims Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, left, and Ella Cook, are seen amongst flowers at a makeshift memorial outside the Engineering Research Center, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, in Providence, R.I.(AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
A memorial of flowers and signs lay outside the Barus and Holley engineering building at Brown University, on Hope Street in Providence, R.I., on Tuesday, Dec 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt OBrien)
Brown University senior Zoe Kass and her boyfriend return to the engineering building they fled Saturday to leave flowers on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, in Providence, R.I. (AP Photo/Matt OBrien)
A classroom in Brown University's Barus and Holley building is pictured two days after a shooting occurred inside the building. in Providence, R.I., Monday, Dec. 15, 2025. (Lily Speredelozzi/The Sun Chronicle via AP)
This combo image made with photos provided by the FBI and the Providence, Rhode Island, Police Department shows a person of interest in the shooting that occurred at Brown University in Providence, R.I., Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025. (FBI/Providence Police Department via AP)
A makeshift memorial is seen on the campus of Brown University, close to from the scene of the shooting, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025, in Providence, R.I. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Members of the FBI Evidence Response Team search for evidence near the campus of Brown University, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025, in Providence, R.I. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Visitors pause at a makeshift memorial for the victims of Saturday's shooting, at the Van Wickle Gate at Brown University, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025, in Providence, R.I.(AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
