DETROIT — Before the Blues’ Vladimir Tarasenko left last Thursday’s game against Los Angeles, he was “flying,” teammate Brayden Schenn said.



Tarasenko, who went into that game on a five-game point streak, had two shots on goal in 4 1/2 minutes of ice time. But on a power move to the net late in the first period, he got tangled up with LA’s Sean Walker and left the game.



The Blues announced the next day that Tarasenko would miss the two-game road trip with an upper-body injury and be re-evaluated Monday. That created some fear for those who are familiar with his history. He had surgery in April 2018 to repair a dislocated left shoulder and aggravated it in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup final last season.



Before we tell you what we know about Tarasenko’s status, let’s take a look at the sequence in which he went down. You’ll see in the frame-by-frame below that after he takes a stretch pass from defenseman...