{"id":102261,"date":"2021-03-01T16:04:56","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T21:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=102261"},"modified":"2021-03-11T23:03:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T04:03:58","slug":"florida-panther-anthony-duclair-out-with-a-lower-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/03\/01\/florida-panther-anthony-duclair-out-with-a-lower-body-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Panther Anthony Duclair Out With a Lower-Body Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Florida Panthers announced that forward <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/duclaan01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anthony Duclair<\/a><\/strong> is sidelined for at least a week with an undisclosed lower-body injury.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Joel Quenneville says Anthony Duclair out perhaps a week, Frank Vatrano to get a look on top <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FlaPanthers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#FlaPanthers<\/a> line with Barkov and Verhaeghe<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; George Richards (@GeorgeRichards) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GeorgeRichards\/status\/1366410384010317840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 1, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Anthony Duclair Injured<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">On Monday morning, Panthers head coach <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/q\/quennjo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joel Quenneville<\/a><\/strong> said that Duclair would miss &#8220;about a week&#8221; with a lower-body injury. Duclair sustained the injury during the team&#8217;s 4-3 shootout loss to the Carolina Hurricanes on Sunday. While there was no precise moment when Duclair suffered said damage. He did leave the game with 10:24 remaining in the third period. For a guy that uses his speed to his advantage, the fact that he recorded a season-low 12:01 of ice-time says something in itself.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">So far this season, Anthony Duclair has scored two goals and eight assists for ten points to go along with four minutes in penalties. His possession numbers were pretty good, at 57.2 percent Corsi and a relative Corsi of 6.2.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Over his seven<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">-year NHL career, Duclair<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> has played for a handful of teams, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/coyotes\/\" target=\"_self\">Arizona Coyotes<\/a><\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/senators\/\" target=\"_self\">Ottawa Senators<\/a><\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/bluejackets\/\" target=\"_self\">Colombus Blue Jackets<\/a><\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. He has 81<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> goals and 91<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> assists for 172<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> career points in 372<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> career games. The New York Rangers originally drafted him in the third<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> round, 80th<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> overall in the 2013<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> NHL Entry draft.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">What This Means for the Future<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Despite Duclairs un-natural lack of production; The highly-talented forward still has made a tremendous impact on the Panther&#8217;s offence. Even though ten points in 19 games are not the MO for Anthony, his underlying numbers stand out the most. Not only is he still driving plays, but he is also helping create scoring opportunities off of them as well. As part of that <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/02\/25\/florida-panthers-top-line-leading-charge\/\" target=\"_self\">dynamic top line<\/a> on the Panthers, his possession numbers are the highest they have ever been. Regardless of how Duclair is starting, he has still been an incredible addition to the Panthers&#8217; offence\u2014using his speed, combined with those around him. The Florida Panthers transition game has been top-notch.<\/p>\n<p>Now that Duclair will miss at least the next two games. Quenneville will look to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/v\/vatrafr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frank Vatrano<\/a><\/strong> to fill the void. Vatrano is another player that has tons of speed and loves to play chippy. After scoring some big-time goals this past week, he has been given a chance to shine on the first line with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/barkoal01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aleksander Barkov<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/v\/verhaca01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carter Verhaeghe<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida Panthers announced that forward Anthony Duclair is sidelined for at least a week with an undisclosed lower-body injury. Joel Quenneville says Anthony Duclair out perhaps a week, Frank Vatrano to get a look on top #FlaPanthers line with Barkov and Verhaeghe &mdash; George Richards (@GeorgeRichards) March 1, 2021 Anthony Duclair Injured On Monday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3183,"featured_media":102269,"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":[6,4547,6671,34,4548],"tags":[175,6608,37,1576,38],"class_list":["post-102261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-panthers","category-hockey","category-injuries","category-news","category-nhl","tag-anthony-duclair","tag-florida-panthers-news","tag-hockey","tag-injury","tag-nhl"],"modified_by":"Brandon Higley-Blair, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102261","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\/3183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}