{"id":105742,"date":"2021-04-01T13:41:54","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T17:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=105742"},"modified":"2021-04-01T14:06:01","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T18:06:01","slug":"buffalo-sabres-curtis-lazar-out-with-lower-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/04\/01\/buffalo-sabres-curtis-lazar-out-with-lower-body-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo Sabres\u2019 Curtis Lazar Out With Lower-Body Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">The Buffalo Sabres announced centreman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/lazarcu01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Curtis Lazar<\/a> is considered week-to-week with a lower-body injury. Lazar skated only five shifts in the second period against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/flyers\/\" target=\"_self\">Philadelphia Flyers<\/a> on Wednesday. He did not return from the second intermission to play the third period.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Sabres&#39; Curtis Lazar is out week-to-week with a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>With Lazar, Dylan Cozens and Jack Eichel out, Sam Reinhart will remain at center.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John Vogl (@BuffaloVogl) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BuffaloVogl\/status\/1377654960796622849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 1, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Buffalo Sabres\u2019 Curtis Lazar Out With Injury<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Lazar scored Buffalo\u2019s second goal on Wednesday to give his team a 2-0 lead in what became a 6-1 victory against the Flyers. The nature of his injury remains unknown as it wasn\u2019t clear what happened on the ice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">The 26 year old is third in team goals with five, behind teammates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/o\/olofsvi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Victor Olofsson<\/a> (9), and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/reinhsa01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sam Reinhart<\/a> (13). During is eight-year NHL career, Lazar has score 25 goals and 45 assists for 70 points in 317 games. This season he has five goals and four assists in 33 games.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">He was drafted 17th overall in the 2013 by the<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/senators\/\" target=\"_self\"> Ottawa Senators<\/a>, where he stayed from 2014 to 2017. In March 1, 2017 he was traded to th<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/flames\/\" target=\"_self\">e Calgary Flames <\/a>at the trade-deadline. Lazar stayed with the Alberta team bouncing between the Flames and their AHL affiliate, the Stockton Heat until 2019. The Canadian player signed with Buffalo after not receiving a qualifying offer from Calgary when he became a restricted free agent.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">What This Means For The Future<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Buffalo just ended their 18 winless streak with a win against Philadelphia on Wednesday. However, the strikes against the team don\u2019t stop. They have already lost their key-defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mccabja01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jake McCabe<\/a> late in February, with a season ending knee injury. They\u2019re also without their captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/e\/eicheja01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jack Eichel<\/a>, who sustained an upper-body injury against the<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/islanders\/\" target=\"_self\"> New York Islanders<\/a> back in March 7. Their star rookie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/cozendy01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dylan Cozens<\/a> was injured on Monday against the Flyers. It almost feels like the hockey gods don\u2019t want them to succeed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">A good news for their fans is that since their game against the<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/bruins\/\" target=\"_self\"> Boston Bruins<\/a> on Saturday, the team has been looking a lot better. Even though they blew a 3-0 lead on Monday, it was likely their best game of the season both offensively and defensively. Another good news is that interim head coach Don Granato and General manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/a\/adamske01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kevyn Adams<\/a> are confident about Cozens. He\u2019s considered a week-to-week but they are optimistic the rookie won\u2019t be out for long.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">The bad news is they won\u2019t make the playoffs and still have enough games to break the NHL record for longest winless streak during the OT era. With how the team has played the last three games, that\u2019s unlikely and they have enough talented players to win some more games and not go into the same spiral from the past 18 games. All Buffalo needs to do now is stay healthy and keep the momentum going forward.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"YxyAmGesTIxrqKHTzr-g0w\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1231967878\" 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:'YxyAmGesTIxrqKHTzr-g0w',sig:'ydFLTBHBNaYIk2-war7Ta9vePASB0I9fh4pVrUnQ-Fc=',w:'594px',h:'450px',items:'1231967878',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 Buffalo Sabres announced centreman Curtis Lazar is considered week-to-week with a lower-body injury. Lazar skated only five shifts in the second period against the Philadelphia Flyers on Wednesday. He did not return from the second intermission to play the third period. The Sabres&#39; Curtis Lazar is out week-to-week with a lower-body injury. With Lazar, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3683,"featured_media":105771,"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":[3,4547,6671,34,4548],"tags":[5833,1165,5738,955],"class_list":["post-105742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sabres","category-hockey","category-injuries","category-news","category-nhl","tag-buffalo-sabres-news","tag-curtis-lazar","tag-hockey-news","tag-nhl-news"],"modified_by":"William Grigsby","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105742","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\/3683"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}