{"id":100764,"date":"2021-02-11T20:26:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T01:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=100764"},"modified":"2021-03-11T23:04:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T04:04:31","slug":"tampa-bay-lightning-steven-stamkos-suffers-lower-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/02\/11\/tampa-bay-lightning-steven-stamkos-suffers-lower-body-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Lightning Steven Stamkos Suffers Lower-Body Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/01\/19\/tampa-bay-lightning-their-road-to-cup\/\" target=\"_self\">Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> have lost <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/stamkst01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steven Stamkos<\/a><\/strong> for a period of time due to an unspecified lower-body injury. The team&#8217;s captain is currently out day-to-day with this ailment. The team announced the news just prior to the start of their Thursday night game.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Injury update: Steven Stamkos is out for tonight\u2019s game with a day-to-day, lower-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tampa Bay Lightning (@TBLightning) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TBLightning\/status\/1360014377261404160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 11, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Steven Stamkos Suffers Lower-Body Injury<\/h2>\n<p>This loss could be huge for the Lightning as Stamkos was off to a white-hot start in 2020-21. The 30-year-old was tied for the most points on the team with seven goals and 14 points in 11 games. He was also winning face-offs at a blistering rate of 58.2 percent. A fairly average 50.8 percent Corsi For and -.4 relative Corsi aren&#8217;t great possession numbers, but it&#8217;s hard to argue that Stamkos isn&#8217;t having a special season thus far. The only real concern at this stage is if he could maintain a goals-per-60 minutes of 2.07 when his expected rate per <a href=\"https:\/\/evolving-hockey.com\/stats\/skater_standard\/?_inputs_&amp;std_sk_age1=%2217%22&amp;std_sk_type=%22Rates%22&amp;std_sk_adj=%22No%20Adjustment%22&amp;std_sk_season=%2220202021%22&amp;std_sk_span=%22Regular%22&amp;std_sk_toi=%2250%22&amp;std_sk_dft_yr=%22All%22&amp;std_sk_range=%22Seasons%22&amp;std_sk_group=%22Team%2C%20Season%22&amp;std_sk_info=%22No%22&amp;std_sk_pos=%22All%22&amp;std_sk_table=%22Box%20Score%22&amp;std_sk_players=null&amp;std_sk_team=%22T.B%22&amp;std_sk_age2=%2250%22&amp;std_sk_str=%22All%22\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Evolving Hockey<\/a> is only 1.4.<\/p>\n<p>Stamkos has been an outstanding player since the Lightning drafted him first overall in the 2008 Draft. He debuted immediately in 2008-09 and has appeared in over 800 NHL games. He has 429 goals and 846 points in the regular season while appearing in two all-star games and winning the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/richama01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maurice Richard<\/a><\/strong> Trophy twice as well. There is little doubt he is one of the NHL&#8217;s premier skaters as he enters the second half of his career.<\/p>\n<p>[pickup_prop id=&#8221;3632&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h3>How Tampa Replaces Stamkos<\/h3>\n<p>Tampa shouldn&#8217;t have too much trouble replacing Stamkos if he out for only one or two games. They have several players that can move to the top line centre position including <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/j\/johnsty01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tyler Johnson<\/a><\/strong>. The Lightning still have plenty of firepower outside of Stamkos as both <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/pointbr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brayden Point<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/cirelan01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anthony Cirelli<\/a><\/strong> are having fantastic seasons themselves. The only reason this injury could affect the team is if it lingers and others join Stamkos on the injured list. Even a team as deep as this one isn&#8217;t immune to the potential stress of a compressed season.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"f_6CBnwvRmRyiSWoWPN7lw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/1231007093\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'f_6CBnwvRmRyiSWoWPN7lw',sig:'TZJGz7IJ6iCCinburZB_kMEM6D4JZaTx-s-S7fkoF7o=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1231007093',caption: true ,tld:'ca',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay Lightning have lost Steven Stamkos for a period of time due to an unspecified lower-body injury. The team&#8217;s captain is currently out day-to-day with this ailment. The team announced the news just prior to the start of their Thursday night game. Injury update: Steven Stamkos is out for tonight\u2019s game with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3127,"featured_media":100768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4547,6671,34,4548,9],"tags":[5738,1576,955,395,42,6421],"class_list":["post-100764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hockey","category-injuries","category-news","category-nhl","category-lightning","tag-hockey-news","tag-injury","tag-nhl-news","tag-steven-stamkos","tag-tampa-bay-lightning","tag-tampa-bay-lightning-news"],"modified_by":"Alex Metzger, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}