{"id":119931,"date":"2021-10-14T22:01:42","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T02:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=119931"},"modified":"2021-10-14T22:01:42","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T02:01:42","slug":"petr-mrazek-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/10\/14\/petr-mrazek-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"Petr Mrazek Injured, Left Game Early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mrazepe01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Petr Mrazek<\/a> left the Toronto Maple Leafs &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/senators\/\" target=\"_self\">Ottawa Senators<\/a> game one period early today.<\/p>\n<p>He stopped the 37th shot he faced from the Senators, this one was a quick leg stop off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/metevi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Victor Mete<\/a>. The Leafs were already having a difficult time of it, down 3-0 in Ottawa. The fateful shot came just as time was winding down in the second period. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/bathedr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Drake Batherson<\/a> and flicked a pass to Mete down the middle of the ice. Mete had little time so he hurried an otherwise harmless shot. Unfortunately for the 29-year old netminder, something was tweaked as he dropped into his butterfly.<\/p>\n<h2>Petr Mrazek Injured, Leaves Game<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mrazek with the stop but is slow to get up after. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Leafs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Leafs<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Sens?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Sens<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rappCWqxr3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/rappCWqxr3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Alex Metzger (@nhlsensandstuff) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nhlsensandstuff\/status\/1448812641447780352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 15, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Mrazek skated off under his own power once the intermission horn blew, but didn&#8217;t emerge for the third.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means<\/h3>\n<p>When Mrazek faced the Senators in a pre-season match, he managed a 19-save shutout. The Leafs are hoping he can provide stability with last season&#8217;s backup <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/campbja01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jack Campbell<\/a>. That&#8217;s what they&#8217;re paying the former Carolina Hurricane for, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/07\/28\/ufa-petr-mrazek-signs-maple-leafs\/\" target=\"_self\">inking him<\/a> to a three-year, $3.8 million per contract this offseason. It&#8217;s a big move, as he replaced the popular but not always effective <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/a\/anderfr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frederik Andersen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/hutchmi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Hutchinson<\/a> is the most likely replacement for Mrazek, coming in behind Campbell. Even with Petr Mrazek injured, Toronto won&#8217;t be looking for a trade immediately or any such. Hutchinson has played 28 games with the Leafs over three seasons, not always with great success. Last season, however, he had a .919 save percentage over his eight games. Those games were limited to North Division opponents, of course, so take that with a grain of salt.<\/p>\n<p>Hutchinson is an experienced netminder, though. Between him and Campbell, they should be able to tide over the team. If Mrazek is out for a substantial length of time, he&#8217;s going to get some starts, but the bulk of play will still be handled by Campbell.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo: <a id=\"tNusR3e0QY1HvFuC-K_B8w\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1235591687\" 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:'tNusR3e0QY1HvFuC-K_B8w',sig:'QohbKVSLh94vevbrPA3n7gLzpjfNiwmMnfRVXu5KqWA=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1235591687',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>Petr Mrazek left the Toronto Maple Leafs &#8211; Ottawa Senators game one period early today. He stopped the 37th shot he faced from the Senators, this one was a quick leg stop off Victor Mete. The Leafs were already having a difficult time of it, down 3-0 in Ottawa. The fateful shot came just as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3171,"featured_media":119936,"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":[18,4547,4548],"tags":[188,2923,619],"class_list":["post-119931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leafs","category-hockey","category-nhl","tag-frederik-andersen","tag-jack-campbell","tag-petr-mrazek"],"modified_by":"Noah Foster, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119931","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\/3171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}