The Utah Hockey Club played the rest of their game against the Panthers without one of their defencemen.
Olli Maatta was unable to continue in Friday`s game against Florida due to a lower-body injury, the team announced.
The details of how Maatta was injured are not yet known. He left the game in the second period and was ruled out at the start of the third period.
Before leaving, he played for 6 minutes and 17 seconds and recorded one hit.
Olli Maatta, 30 years old, joined Utah from the Detroit Red Wings in a trade last October. In his 62 games with Utah, he has scored two goals and provided 13 assists, with an average ice time of 20 minutes and 21 seconds per game.
Throughout his 12 seasons in the NHL, the player from Finland has accumulated 42 goals and 150 assists in 753 games across five different teams.
