{"id":102568,"date":"2021-03-04T17:49:43","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T22:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=102568"},"modified":"2021-03-04T17:49:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T22:49:43","slug":"new-jersey-devils-nico-hischier-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/03\/04\/new-jersey-devils-nico-hischier-out\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey Devils Nico Hischier Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Jersey Devils have announced that forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/hischni01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nico Hischier<\/a> is out due to a sinus fracture and concussion protocol. The 22-year-old hasn&#8217;t played since February 27th against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/capitals\/\" target=\"_self\">Washington Capitals<\/a>. He is considered week-to-week at this time. Corey Masisak of The Athletic was among those to announced the injury late Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NJDevils?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#NJDevils<\/a> announce Nico Hischier has a sinus fracture and is in concussion protocol. He\u2019s been placed on IR and is considered week-to-week.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Corey Masisak (@cmasisak22) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cmasisak22\/status\/1367597685470019585?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 4, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Devils Nico Hischier Out<\/h2>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a difficult year for Hischier. He has appeared in just five of New Jersey&#8217;s 18 games. While he does have a solid two goals and three points in those five games, it&#8217;s just not enough ice time to make an impact. This is an unfortunate injury as Hischier&#8217;s scoring rate was essentially the same as it has been since he entered the NHL and some of his advanced stats were trending upward. Hischier&#8217;s Corsi For is currently a career-high 53.4 percent and his faceoff win percentage is way up at 58.4, though obviously over a small sample. 2020-21 could still be a breakout campaign for the young skater, but he needs to recover from this current situation first.<\/p>\n<p>The Devils famously selected Hischier first overall in the 2017 Draft when there were such skaters as <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/heiskmi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Miro Heiskanen<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/makarca01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cale Makar<\/a><\/strong> available. However, the 6&#8217;1&#8243; Swiss gentleman has been perfectly fine. He has 53 goals and 138 points in 214 NHL games. That isn&#8217;t a blistering rate, but it doesn&#8217;t help that New Jersey has struggled to build a complete team. There is certainly talent on the roster, but it&#8217;s taken longer to accumulate than one might expect. The good thing is that most of the core is young and cost-controlled for several years. There is plenty of time to build a contender with Hischier as the main contributor.<\/p>\n<h3>How New Jersey Replaces Hischier<\/h3>\n<p>There really isn&#8217;t much that the team needs to do. They have played most of the season without Hischier already. This latest setback merely means more ice time for some of the Devils&#8217; other developing stars. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=hugheja03,hugheja02&amp;search=Jack+Hughes&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jack Hughes<\/a><\/strong> is having a strong sophomore campaign and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/sharaye01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yegor Sharangovich<\/a><\/strong> has flashed talent as well. The organization just needs to hope that the existing roster can keep things afloat for a potential playoff run with a full complement of skaters. Don&#8217;t be surprised if a guy like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/z\/zachapa01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pavel Zacha<\/a> gets a shot on the top line.<\/p>\n<p>[pickup_prop id=&#8221;4184&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"6kxNDs45QaZflmq6BQFieg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/1184942643\" 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:'6kxNDs45QaZflmq6BQFieg',sig:'bCE6qy9Lc-ALbJsi0Mn1eRoI2JQnhjxV5SIgRkppaNs=',w:'594px',h:'422px',items:'1184942643',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 New Jersey Devils have announced that forward Nico Hischier is out due to a sinus fracture and concussion protocol. The 22-year-old hasn&#8217;t played since February 27th against the Washington Capitals. He is considered week-to-week at this time. Corey Masisak of The Athletic was among those to announced the injury late Thursday afternoon. #NJDevils announce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3127,"featured_media":102576,"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":[4547,13,34,4548],"tags":[5738,151,955,922],"class_list":["post-102568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hockey","category-devils","category-news","category-nhl","tag-hockey-news","tag-new-jersey-devils","tag-nhl-news","tag-nico-hischier"],"modified_by":"Jim Biringer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102568","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=102568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}