{"id":105859,"date":"2021-04-02T18:15:53","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T22:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=105859"},"modified":"2021-04-02T18:15:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T22:15:53","slug":"jets-nathan-beaulieu-season-ending-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/04\/02\/jets-nathan-beaulieu-season-ending-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Jets Nathan Beaulieu Suffers Season-Ending Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winnipeg Jets defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/beaulna01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nathan Beaulieu<\/a> has been shut down for the season after having successful shoulder surgery to repair a torn labrum. Jets head coach Paul Maurice informed the press of Beaulieu&#8217;s injury status during the team&#8217;s media availability on Friday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A bit more on Nathan Beaulieu. He had been playing through a torn labrum when he suffered a broken bone in his hand on March 9, which is what knocked him out of lineup. Decision was made to have surgery on it now. <\/p>\n<p>Beaulieu suffered 3 different bone breaks last year.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/wfp?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#wfp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mike McIntyre (@mikemcintyrewpg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mikemcintyrewpg\/status\/1378023587920117769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 2, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Nathan Beaulieu Out for the Remainder of the Season<\/h2>\n<p>Beaulieu has not played a game since March 9th. He was ruled out for a number of weeks after blocking a shot with his left hand against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/leafs\/\" target=\"_self\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a>. As it turned out, not only did he break a bone in his hand during that game but he had also been playing with a shoulder injury for some time.<\/p>\n<p>With multiple injuries and little time to recover, the team opted for Beaulieu to have shoulder surgery and put an end to his 2020-21 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>He finishes this season with 39 hits, 30 blocked shots, 20 penalty minutes and a single assist.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means For The Jets Trade Deadline<\/h3>\n<p>The Nathan Beaulieu injury creates plenty of Trade Deadline buzz. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capfriendly.com\/teams\/jets\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cap Friendly<\/a>, if the Jets place Beaulieu on Long Term Injured Reserve, Winnipeg would then have roughly $4.75 million to play with before the deadline. Naturally, any additions would first and foremost have to address the vacancy on the backend.<\/p>\n<p>The top left-handed defenceman on the market remains <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/e\/ekholma01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mattias Ekholm<\/a>, by a wide margin. Surely, his affordable $3.75 million cap-hit coupled with two years remaining on his contract would interest general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff. Although, you can expect the Predators to put a hefty price tag on his head.<\/p>\n<p>Other left-handers on the market include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/goligal01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alex Goligoski<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/gostish01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shayne Gostisbehere<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/murrary01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ryan Murray<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/kulikdm01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dmitry Kulikov<\/a>. Though, Gostisbehere recently went unclaimed on waivers.<\/p>\n<p>If the front office can address the defensive side of things then Paul Maurice&#8217;s side will be in prime position to make a run in the postseason. Right now, the Jets are 11 points clear of fifth place in the North Division. They play the bottom three teams a further eight times in their last 19 games.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"uhcLfV28TS1P-4j_Q8P6Ew\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/1231565262\" 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:'uhcLfV28TS1P-4j_Q8P6Ew',sig:'KqJC2Bae3lRd2ZW_pNIW69zy8-scug2tVO5uypllSqU=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1231565262',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>Winnipeg Jets defenceman Nathan Beaulieu has been shut down for the season after having successful shoulder surgery to repair a torn labrum. Jets head coach Paul Maurice informed the press of Beaulieu&#8217;s injury status during the team&#8217;s media availability on Friday. A bit more on Nathan Beaulieu. He had been playing through a torn labrum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1733,"featured_media":105889,"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":[33,6671,34,4548],"tags":[1196,955],"class_list":["post-105859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jets","category-injuries","category-news","category-nhl","tag-nathan-beaulieu","tag-nhl-news"],"modified_by":"Colton Osmond, Dept Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105859","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\/1733"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}