{"id":108024,"date":"2021-04-24T00:17:52","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T04:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=108024"},"modified":"2021-04-24T00:17:52","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T04:17:52","slug":"boston-bruins-patrice-bergeron-scratched-late-for-fridays-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/04\/24\/boston-bruins-patrice-bergeron-scratched-late-for-fridays-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Bruins Patrice Bergeron Scratched Late for Friday&#8217;s Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Bruins announced that centre and team captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/bergepa01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Patrice Bergeron<\/a> missed Fridays&#8217; game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/sabres\/\" target=\"_self\">Buffalo Sabres<\/a> with a lower-body injury. Boston head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/cassibr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bruce Cassidy<\/a> didn&#8217;t give a time frame of when Bergeron would return to the lineup.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-6\"><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">UPDATE: Patrice Bergeron (lower body) will not play in tonight&#39;s game.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Boston Bruins (@NHLBruins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHLBruins\/status\/1385724578950008834?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 23, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Patrice Bergeron Out<\/h2>\n<p>It&#8217;s not sure the exact moment the Boston captain got hurt. However, he did take a shot off of his foot in previous game against Buffalo. The team didn&#8217;t have a morning skate as it was playing in the second night of back-to-back games against the Sabres. Cassidy took him out of the lineup as a late scratch.<\/p>\n<p>So far this season, Bergeron has scored 18 goals and 23 assists for 41 points in 45 games. The Ancienne-Lorette, Quebec native also has 14 penalty minutes. His possession numbers are 61.2 percent Corsi and a relative Corsi of 10.7<\/p>\n<p>Over his 17-year NHL career, the 35-year-old has only played for the Bruins. He has 370 goals and 540 assists for 910 career points in<em> 1,134 <\/em>career games. Boston took him the second round, 45th overall of the 2003 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Bergeron is a four-time Selke Trophy winner for the league&#8217;s best defensive forward. He&#8217;s also won the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/clancki01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">King Clancy<\/a> Trophy for leadership charity work and helped guide the Bruins to the Stanley Cup in 2011.<\/p>\n<h2>What This Means for the Future<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/coylech01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Charlie Coyle<\/a> got the<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2020\/11\/21\/charlie-coyle-primed-for-large-role\/\" target=\"_self\"> first-line centre role<\/a> in a 6-4 loss to the Sabres. Buffalo got out to a 5-1 lead before making the game respectable with three third-period goals.<\/p>\n<p>Boston will no doubt miss his leadership and defensive presence on the ice, as he&#8217;s key to winning faceoffs and grinding out games for the club.<\/p>\n<p>The Bruins sit six points ahead of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/rangers\/\" target=\"_self\">New York Rangers<\/a> for the fourth and final playoff spot in the Mass Mutual East Division. Boston does have a pair of games in hand on New York. 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Boston head coach Bruce Cassidy didn&#8217;t give a time frame of when Bergeron would return to the lineup. UPDATE: Patrice Bergeron (lower body) will not play in tonight&#39;s game. &mdash; Boston Bruins (@NHLBruins) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":108025,"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":[5,4547,6671,4548],"tags":[6120,1275,5738,6086,1492],"class_list":["post-108024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bruins","category-hockey","category-injuries","category-nhl","tag-boston-bruins-news","tag-charlie-coyle","tag-hockey-news","tag-nhl-east-division","tag-selke-trophy"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108024","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\/2352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}