{"id":110550,"date":"2021-05-25T00:11:19","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T04:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=110550"},"modified":"2021-05-25T00:11:19","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T04:11:19","slug":"oliver-wahlstrom-out-with-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/05\/25\/oliver-wahlstrom-out-with-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Oliver Wahlstrom Out Day-to-Day With Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The New York Islanders announced that forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/w\/wahlsol01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oliver Wahlstrom<\/a> is sidelined day-to-day with an injury from Monday&#8217;s game.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Trotz: Wahlstrom &#8220;day to day right now.&#8221; Will have further evaluation when <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Isles?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Isles<\/a> return home.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Arthur Staple (@StapeAthletic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StapeAthletic\/status\/1397024059892789250?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 25, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><b>Oliver Wahlstrom Injured<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Monday night\u2019s game, Penguins defenceman <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mathemi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mike Matheson<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> checked Wahlstrom into the boards with his shoulder as they raced to retrieve the puck.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was a legal hit; however, Matheson\u2019s stick appeared to get caught around Wahlstrom\u2019s neck following the initial contact. This caused Wahlstrom\u2019s head to snap back when the two eventually collided with the boards.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wahlstrom\u2019s leg bent also under him at an awkward angle as he collided with the boards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He immediately exited the game with the help of a trainer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So far this season, Wahlstrom has scored 12 goals and nine assists for 21 points. However, he also has 21 penalty minutes. Wahlstrom\u2019s possession numbers were 48.3 percent Corsi and a relative Corsi of -1.7.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over his two-year NHL career, Wahlstrom has remained with the New York Islanders. He has 12 goals and nine assists for 21 career points in 53 career games. Wahlstrom was originally drafted by the New York Islanders in the first round, 11th overall in the 2018 NHL draft.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>What This Means for the Future<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the series against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/penguins\/\" target=\"_self\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a>, the Islanders\u2019 top six have been underperforming. As such, the majority of the team\u2019s scoring has come from the bottom lines. Before his injury, Wahlstrom &#8211; a third-line winger &#8211; had been one of the Islanders\u2019 most productive forwards. He recorded a goal and two assists for three points through four playoff games.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wahlstrom\u2019s absence will destabilize the Islanders\u2019 forward lines at an extremely inopportune time. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/palmiky01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kyle Palmieri<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/pageaje01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jean-Gabriel Pageau<\/a> need a right-winger. At the moment, the best plan seems to be bumping up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/cluttca01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cal Clutterbuck<\/a> from the fourth line. However, that would still require another player to fill Clutterbuck\u2019s spot, and there aren\u2019t many great options. Considering that whoever the Islanders choose to promote will also have to contend with adjusting to the team during the playoffs, where the margin for error is slim, assembling a functioning bottom six will be a tall task.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"m2h1ya-rTQp8_p2HZEuiOQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1319886360\" 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:'m2h1ya-rTQp8_p2HZEuiOQ',sig:'iFUWqbuTwnWoTO7LFuhr0pX3fJlyV6bm4Bs2o1kF6cE=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1319886360',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 New York Islanders announced that forward Oliver Wahlstrom is sidelined day-to-day with an injury from Monday&#8217;s game. Trotz: Wahlstrom &#8220;day to day right now.&#8221; Will have further evaluation when #Isles return home. \u2014 Arthur Staple (@StapeAthletic) May 25, 2021 Oliver Wahlstrom Injured In Monday night\u2019s game, Penguins defenceman Mike Matheson checked Wahlstrom into the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3813,"featured_media":110569,"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":[6671,4547,17,34,4548],"tags":[2137],"class_list":["post-110550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-injuries","category-hockey","category-islanders","category-news","category-nhl","tag-oliver-wahlstrom"],"modified_by":"Josh Erickson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110550","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\/3813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}