{"id":106989,"date":"2021-04-12T11:32:50","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T15:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=106989"},"modified":"2021-04-12T11:32:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T15:32:50","slug":"coyotes-jordan-gross-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/04\/12\/coyotes-jordan-gross-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Coyotes Lose Jordan Gross Due to Significant Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona Coyotes defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/grossjo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jordan Gross<\/a> could miss the rest of the regular season due to injury. He suffered a knee injury and concussion in a recent game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/vegas-golden-knights\/\" target=\"_self\">Vegas Golden Knights<\/a>. Craig Morgan provided the update Monday morning.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hearing Gross will miss significant time, possibly the rest of the regular season, depending on results of more tests on his knee. He&#39;ll return to AZ today.<br \/>As I noted Sunday, Ryan Reaves won&#39;t face supplemental discipline. Blame a poorly written rule &amp; player safety lip service. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kFrKVwEubH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/kFrKVwEubH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Craig Morgan (@CraigSMorgan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CraigSMorgan\/status\/1381624903414128641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 12, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Coyotes Lose Jordan Gross Due To Injury<\/h2>\n<p>Gross has been largely a spare defender in 2020-21. The 25-year-old blueliner has appeared in just seven games but does have three assists, six hits and eight blocks while averaging 13:11 per game. He has played almost exclusively at even strength with a 53.8 percent Corsi For and .4 relative Corsi. It&#8217;s a very small sample size, but some of the underlying numbers are still promising for the second-year skater.<\/p>\n<p>The Coyotes signed Gross as an undrafted free agent after the 2017-18 collegiate season as he wrapped up a productive career with the University of Notre Dame. The 5&#8217;10&#8221; Minnesota native posted 36 goals and 121 points in 159 games. He also collected 15 goals and 54 points in 118 games at the AHL level. He probably isn&#8217;t much more than a bottom-four pairing defender, but he is a right-handed shot and seems to have some decent scoring ability. He&#8217;s the exact sort of undrafted college signee teams love to uncover outside of the draft. One only needs to look as far as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/krugto01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Torey Krug<\/a> for an example of such a player.<\/p>\n<h3>How Arizona Replaces Gross<\/h3>\n<p>The Coyotes are in an interesting place with their roster. They are just one point outside of the West Division playoff picture. That would ordinarily give most teams a reason to buy at the trade deadline. However, the team&#8217;s system is not particularly deep, they have very little cap space, and they do not have their first-round pick in the 2021 Draft as a penalty for violating league rules. They may recall <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/sodervi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Victor Soderstrom<\/a>, who has appeared in two games with no points or attempt to acquire a defensive reinforcement and squeeze them under the cap ceiling.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"a7lUeTNGSJ5b3kqGJWLOvQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1230846485\" 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:'a7lUeTNGSJ5b3kqGJWLOvQ',sig:'_BU4JWxI0Zrr80P0hDJQZOBeI7wKfHSU5elIVl59IBw=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1230846485',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>Arizona Coyotes defenceman Jordan Gross could miss the rest of the regular season due to injury. He suffered a knee injury and concussion in a recent game against the Vegas Golden Knights. Craig Morgan provided the update Monday morning. Hearing Gross will miss significant time, possibly the rest of the regular season, depending on results [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3127,"featured_media":106993,"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":[21,4547,6671,34,4548],"tags":[1341],"class_list":["post-106989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mammoth","category-hockey","category-injuries","category-news","category-nhl","tag-jordan-gross"],"modified_by":"Josh Erickson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106989","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=106989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}