{"id":104941,"date":"2021-03-26T07:00:29","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=104941"},"modified":"2021-03-26T05:18:26","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T09:18:26","slug":"patric-hornqvist-injury-forces-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/03\/26\/patric-hornqvist-injury-forces-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Patric Hornqvist Injured, Forced to Leave Game Early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/03\/24\/florida-panthers-trade-deadline-options\/\" target=\"_self\">Florida Panthers<\/a> forward <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/hornqpa01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Patric Hornqvist<\/a><\/strong> is injured and considered day to day after leaving tonight&#8217;s game early. <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/03\/24\/possible-blackhawks-deadline-deals\/\" target=\"_self\">Chicago Blackhawks<\/a> defenseman <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/z\/zadorni01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nikita Zadorov<\/a><\/strong> delivered a hit to Hornqvist, causing him to leave and not return.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Coach Q says we\u2019ll know more on Patric Hornqvist tomorrow, but that he is day-to-day after the hit tonight that saw him leave the game. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FLAvsCHI?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#FLAvsCHI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; x &#8211; Florida Panthers (@FlaPanthers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FlaPanthers\/status\/1375279517170733056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 26, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Forward Patric Hornqvist Injured, Considered Day to Day<\/h2>\n<p>Hornqvist is having a fantastic bounceback season in Florida. After being traded from the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/03\/25\/pittsburgh-penguins-lose-kasperi-kapanen-to-injury\/\" target=\"_self\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a>, Hornqvist set out to prove everyone wrong. Approaching a point per game pace, he&#8217;s been lighting it up with the Panthers. In 32 games, he&#8217;s scored 12 times and registered 13 assists, totaling 25 points. He&#8217;s third on the team in points, second in goals, and fifth in assists. His Corsi is a 55.4%, with a relative Corsi of 3.9 &#8211; the fifth highest out of the forwards. In his 13 year career, Hornqvist has played 802 games, lighting the lamp 250 times, and dishing out 255 assists, for 505 points.<\/p>\n<h3>Looking Forward<\/h3>\n<p>With Patric Hornqvist injured, the Panthers lose a significant chunk of their offence. However, with players like <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 <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\"><strong>Carter Verhaeghe<\/strong><\/a> having breakout seasons, their offense is much deeper than one player. Add in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/huberjo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jonathan Huberdeau<\/a><\/strong>, and this Central Divsion team is chomping at the bit to score. While losing Hornqvist is a big deal, other Panthers can pick up the slack.<\/p>\n<p>Florida starts a mini series against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/03\/23\/dallas-stars-lose-joel-kiviranta-radek-faksa-to-injury\/\" target=\"_self\">Dallas Stars<\/a> on Saturday. With Dallas currently at seventh place in the Central, Florida needs to win these next few games. Only three points behind the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/hurricanes\/\" target=\"_self\">Carolina Hurricanes<\/a>, the Panthers could give themselves a boost in the standings with wins. The Panthers will be hungry for a win after losing two games to the Blackhawks, including a scoreless game tonight. While it is not desperation, a three game skid is never a good way to try to take first place. Florida&#8217;s offence will have to put in some serious work missing Hornqvist if they want to win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Panthers forward Patric Hornqvist is injured and considered day to day after leaving tonight&#8217;s game early. Chicago Blackhawks defenseman Nikita Zadorov delivered a hit to Hornqvist, causing him to leave and not return. Coach Q says we\u2019ll know more on Patric Hornqvist tomorrow, but that he is day-to-day after the hit tonight that saw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3605,"featured_media":104949,"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":[34,6,4547,6671,4548],"tags":[1083,1925,5738,955,904],"class_list":["post-104941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-panthers","category-hockey","category-injuries","category-nhl","tag-aleksander-barkov","tag-carter-verhaeghe","tag-hockey-news","tag-nhl-news","tag-patric-hornqvist"],"modified_by":"Gabriel Foley","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104941","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\/3605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}