{"id":103576,"date":"2021-03-14T20:19:06","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T00:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=103576"},"modified":"2021-03-14T20:19:06","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T00:19:06","slug":"marcus-foligno-week-to-week-minnesota-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/03\/14\/marcus-foligno-week-to-week-minnesota-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcus Foligno Week-to-Week For Minnesota Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Wild have announced that forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/f\/foligma01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marcus Foligno<\/a> will miss several weeks due to an unknown injury. This certainly hurts the team as he was one of the team&#8217;s strongest performers in 2020-21. Michael Russo of The Athletic provided the news early Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hearing injured winger Marcus Foligno will be sidelined at least a few weeks for the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mnwild?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#mnwild<\/a>. Off to a great first half, he&#39;s a point from 200 in his career.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Michael Russo (@RussoHockey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RussoHockey\/status\/1371158583224627200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 14, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Wild Marcus Foligno Out<\/h2>\n<p>The 29-year-old Foligno has been one of Minnesota&#8217;s best players so far this year. He has contributed seven goals and 16 points in 23 games while averaging 14:31 per game. The scoring rate of .70 points per game is the best of the veteran&#8217;s career since he was a rookie in 2011-12. His possession stats indicate some possible good luck; a 44.7 Corsi For and -4.7 relative Corsi are very poor, but Foligno was still making it work within Minnesota&#8217;s system.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/sabres\/\" target=\"_self\">Buffalo Sabres<\/a> originally drafted the Buffalo, New York native in the fourth round of the 2009 Draft. He played for the hometown organization from 2011-12 through 2016-17. He scored 49 goals and 116 points 347 games before the Sabres traded him to Minnesota for a package including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/pominja01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jason Pominville<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/scandma01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marco Scandella<\/a>. Overall, Foligno has been a solid two-way NHL forward with 82 goals, 199 points and 1656 hits in 588 games.<\/p>\n<h3>How Minnesota Replaces Foligno<\/h3>\n<p>The Wild have several options to replace Foligno for the foreseeable future. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/raskvi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Victor Rask<\/a> was promoted to the first line in Sunday&#8217;s game to centre <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/z\/zuccama01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mats Zuccarello<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/kapriki01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kirill Kaprizov<\/a> and he scored a goal. The 28-year-old is certainly one option for the Foligno&#8217;s spot at this time. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/e\/eriksjo02.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joel Eriksson Ek<\/a> is another as he seems to have found a new gear this season.<\/p>\n<p>This injury isn&#8217;t ideal, but Minnesota should be able to hold onto their spot near the top of the West Division. They have few serious injuries and the system doesn&#8217;t rely too heavily on any one player. The team is obviously stronger with Foligno given how he is performing this season, but it shouldn&#8217;t derail their playoff efforts. However, it may give the team an incentive to acquire some additional centre depth as the deadline approaches.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"Bth0XJogTIxXUBWlYt3WKw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1305713178\" 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:'Bth0XJogTIxXUBWlYt3WKw',sig:'Fwb5P7JD6nvvIG9X-3dbANo3GjKxeYGrhOTGBS3p-rA=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1305713178',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 Minnesota Wild have announced that forward Marcus Foligno will miss several weeks due to an unknown injury. This certainly hurts the team as he was one of the team&#8217;s strongest performers in 2020-21. Michael Russo of The Athletic provided the news early Sunday afternoon. Hearing injured winger Marcus Foligno will be sidelined at least [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3127,"featured_media":103620,"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":[4547,6671,30,34,4548],"tags":[1576],"class_list":["post-103576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hockey","category-injuries","category-wild","category-news","category-nhl","tag-injury"],"modified_by":"Josh Erickson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103576","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=103576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}