{"id":101065,"date":"2021-02-15T22:29:46","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T03:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=101065"},"modified":"2021-02-15T22:29:46","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T03:29:46","slug":"st-louis-blues-torey-krug-out-day-to-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/02\/15\/st-louis-blues-torey-krug-out-day-to-day\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis Blues Torey Krug Out Day-To-Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Blues have announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/krugto01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Torey Krug<\/a> is out day-to-day with an upper-body injury. He suffered the injury during the team&#8217;s loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/coyotes\/\" target=\"_self\">Arizona Coyotes<\/a> Monday afternoon. The team announced Krug&#8217;s updated status late Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Torey Krug is considered day-to-day. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/19BfFV4zoJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/19BfFV4zoJ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/stlblues?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#stlblues<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; St. Louis Blues (@StLouisBlues) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StLouisBlues\/status\/1361464427954933761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 15, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Blues Torey Krug Out Day-To-Day<\/h2>\n<p>Krug was off to a slow start after joining the team as a high-profile replacement for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/pietral01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alex Pietrangelo<\/a>. The former <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/bruins\/\" target=\"_self\">Boston Bruins<\/a> blueliner has just one goal and nine points in 15 games. Those aren&#8217;t bad numbers, but 0.6 points per game is Krug&#8217;s lowest since 2015-16. It&#8217;s resulted in some additional opportunities for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/f\/faulkju01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Justin Faulk<\/a>, but there is plenty of time for the 29-year-old Krug to return and dominate as expected. He still has above-average possession numbers and is just having some bad luck at this point.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to believe, but Krug joined the league as an undrafted free agent after a college career at Michigan State. The Bruins signed him prior to 2011-12 and he saw brief action until 2013-14 when he exploded. The 5&#8242;-9&#8243;, 186-pound defender posted 14 goals and 40 points in 79 games in a campaign that earned him a fourth-place finish in the Calder Trophy voting that season. Overall, Krug has 68 goals and 346 points in 538 games. He&#8217;s been living proof that draft selection is no barrier to NHL success.<\/p>\n<h3>How St. Louis Replaces Krug<\/h3>\n<p>The injuries keep piling up for the Blues, but the blueline is still relatively unscathed. Look for either <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mikkoni01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Niko Mikkola<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/w\/walmaja01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jake Walman<\/a> to re-enter the lineup if Krug is ruled out for their Thursday game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/sharks\/\" target=\"_self\">San Jose Sharks<\/a>. Neither Mikkola or Walman has a point in 2020-21, but St. Louis can easily bump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/dunnvi02.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vince Dunn<\/a> into a larger role and have one of them take over on the bottom pairing. This is not an ideal injury, but it&#8217;s manageable for the moment considering the existing blueline depth.<\/p>\n<p>[pickup_prop id=&#8221;3401&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"qzCRTvNtRuJzmj77Ez1IFw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1231190589\" 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:'qzCRTvNtRuJzmj77Ez1IFw',sig:'BvUPzlcIr9F2rr40y8yIZWYrGC3cpMNW1Jj2EdNV5QU=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1231190589',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Blues have announced that Torey Krug is out day-to-day with an upper-body injury. He suffered the injury during the team&#8217;s loss to the Arizona Coyotes Monday afternoon. The team announced Krug&#8217;s updated status late Monday afternoon. Torey Krug is considered day-to-day. https:\/\/t.co\/19BfFV4zoJ #stlblues &mdash; St. Louis Blues (@StLouisBlues) February 15, 2021 Blues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3127,"featured_media":101088,"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":[34,4547,4548,32],"tags":[5738,1576,1457,955,3583,1535],"class_list":["post-101065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-hockey","category-nhl","category-blues","tag-hockey-news","tag-injury","tag-jake-walman","tag-nhl-news","tag-niko-mikkola","tag-torey-krug"],"modified_by":"William Grigsby","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101065","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=101065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}