{"id":123590,"date":"2022-01-04T16:07:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T21:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=123590"},"modified":"2022-01-04T16:32:04","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T21:32:04","slug":"dougie-hamilton-sidelined-with-broken-jaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2022\/01\/04\/dougie-hamilton-sidelined-with-broken-jaw\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey Devils Dougie Hamilton Sidelined with Broken Jaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2022\/01\/04\/nhl-predictions-january-4th-with-new-jersey-devils-vs-boston-bruins\/\" target=\"_self\">New Jersey Devils<\/a> have placed defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/hamildo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dougie Hamilton<\/a> on the injured reserve due to a broken jaw. Hamilton is to undergo surgery Wednesday, says coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/ruffli01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lindy Ruff<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NEWS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#NEWS<\/a>: We have the following updates on Nico Hischier (lower-body injury), Dougie Hamilton (broken jaw), Jonathan Bernier (hip surgery), and two players have entered COVID-19 Protocol. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OO4Zt528ho\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/OO4Zt528ho<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 New Jersey Devils (@NJDevils) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NJDevils\/status\/1478440154226466821?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 4, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Devils Defence Affected By Dougie Hamilton Injury<\/h2>\n<p>Dougie Hamilton came over to the Devils in the last off-season, after signing a massive 7-year, $63 million dollar deal. The deal carries an annual cap hit of $9 million dollars and includes a no-movement clause (NMC) for the entirety of the contract. The Devils have had a mediocre start to the 2021-22 season and the club sits seventh in the Metropolitan Division, with a record of 13-15-5.<\/p>\n<p>The star defenceman has appeared in 30 regular-season games so far this season. Hamilton has recorded 7 goals and 13 assists, for 20 points on the year. He&#8217;s tied for seventh in goals among all defencemen with seven and 19th for points with 20. If he were to play a full 82 game season, this puts him on pace for 19 goals and 55 points.<\/p>\n<p>A weakness of the Devils blue-line over the past few years was never having a defenceman capable of being a catalyst of the team&#8217;s scoring. Signing Hamilton over the summer was also notable to help fix the club&#8217;s power-play, which ranked 28th last season. They were operating at 14.19 percent in the men-advantage. Furthermore, young 24-year-old defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/siegejo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jonas Siegenthaler<\/a> has stepped up and played a huge defensive role on the Devil&#8217;s penalty kill.<\/p>\n<h3>What this means for the Future<\/h3>\n<p>With their top defenceman sidelined, the Devils will take a massive hit as they try and climb back to a record above .500. The Dougie Hamilton injury means <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/subbapk01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">P.K. Subban<\/a> will slide up to the top-pair, playing alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/gravery01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ryan Graves<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/severda01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Damon Severson<\/a> will quarterback the first power-play unit for the Devils in Hamilton&#8217;s place.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Devils captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/hischni01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nico Hischier<\/a> is out with a lower-body injury. Goaltender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/bernijo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jonathan Bernier<\/a> underwent successful hip surgery on Monday and will be out for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<p>It is not all doom and gloom for New Jersey. The Devils have won three straight games and as star centre, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=hugheja03,hugheja02&amp;search=Jack+Hughes&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jack Hughes<\/a> returned and has aided the team&#8217;s push greatly. The Devils will be on the road Tuesday, January 4th, against the Boston Bruins for their next game.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"eYjT0EVvTCVSSlTpuPjhFA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com.br\/detail\/1237536249\" 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:'eYjT0EVvTCVSSlTpuPjhFA',sig:'avbQYa3_l8UWEiV81MhkYqOfoNtYWp8WMyGqWpFCtEM=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1237536249',caption: true ,tld:'com.br',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 Jersey Devils have placed defenceman Dougie Hamilton on the injured reserve due to a broken jaw. Hamilton is to undergo surgery Wednesday, says coach Lindy Ruff. #NEWS: We have the following updates on Nico Hischier (lower-body injury), Dougie Hamilton (broken jaw), Jonathan Bernier (hip surgery), and two players have entered COVID-19 Protocol. https:\/\/t.co\/OO4Zt528ho [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3765,"featured_media":123596,"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":[13,4547,6671,34,4548],"tags":[7102,967],"class_list":["post-123590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-devils","category-hockey","category-injuries","category-news","category-nhl","tag-2021-22-new-jersey-devils","tag-dougie-hamilton"],"modified_by":"Jim Biringer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123590","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\/3765"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}