{"id":124577,"date":"2022-01-25T21:46:21","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T02:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=124577"},"modified":"2022-01-25T21:46:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T02:46:21","slug":"erik-karlsson-surgery-out-multiple-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2022\/01\/25\/erik-karlsson-surgery-out-multiple-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Erik Karlsson Surgery Keeps Him Out Until Mid-March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The San Jose Sharks have announced that defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/karlser01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Erik Karlsson<\/a> will undergo forearm surgery, and will be evaluated in mid-March.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SJSharks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#SJSharks<\/a> defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ErikKarlsson65?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@ErikKarlsson65<\/a> underwent successful surgery on his left forearm at Kaiser Permanente on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>He is expected to be re-evaluated in mid-March.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/msyUWzMIaT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/msyUWzMIaT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 San Jose Sharks (@SanJoseSharks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SanJoseSharks\/status\/1486021074206740482?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Erik Karlsson Surgery Sidelines Him Until Mid-March<\/h2>\n<p>The Sharks defenceman, 31, has 26 points in 31 games so far this year and hasn&#8217;t played more than 60 games since 2017-2018. He has struggled with a lot of injuries in the past. He had major surgery in 2013 to repair a torn Achilles, sitting out 29 games during the 2018-2019 season due to a severe groin injury. In addition, he sat out a lot of the 2021 season due to another groin injury.<\/p>\n<p>The Sharks are not having the greatest year, sitting at 21-19-2 in the regular season. They are in front of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2022\/01\/24\/the-lwoh-show-montreal-canadiens-rangers-maple-leafs\/\" target=\"_self\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2022\/01\/25\/pros-cons-jt-miller-trade\/\" target=\"_self\">Vancouver Canucks<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2022\/01\/23\/nhl-predictions-january-23rd-including-st-louis-blues-vs-vancouver-canucks\/\" target=\"_self\">Seattle Kraken<\/a> in the standings.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means For The Future<\/h3>\n<p>To start things off, this is Karlsson&#8217;s 3rd major injury in 3 years, which shows that we may be in the last few years of his career. For the Sharks, it&#8217;s a significant blow considering that they are paying him $11.5 million until 2027, and he&#8217;s missing significant time almost every year. It will give them some salary-cap room if they place him on the LTIR. However, the problem is that they aren&#8217;t trying to compete. Rather, they are halfway through a multi-year-long rebuild, and their younger players could use the experience from someone like Karlsson. If he&#8217;s constantly hurt then the rookies cannot gain the experience from him.<\/p>\n<p>It also hinders a chance at winning a Stanley Cup, considering his constant major injuries and the overall recent performance of the sharks may leave him without a cup by the time he calls it quits, leaving the 2017 eastern conference finals while with Ottawa the closest he may ever get.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"H0UAWH_aTZdB70-gOo6xmg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1357811170\" 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:'H0UAWH_aTZdB70-gOo6xmg',sig:'OZdDSEJUtntsqjfOSfvp2s58757-5LTNqblakH_lf78=',w:'594px',h:'390px',items:'1357811170',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 San Jose Sharks have announced that defenceman Erik Karlsson will undergo forearm surgery, and will be evaluated in mid-March. #SJSharks defenseman @ErikKarlsson65 underwent successful surgery on his left forearm at Kaiser Permanente on Monday. He is expected to be re-evaluated in mid-March.https:\/\/t.co\/msyUWzMIaT \u2014 San Jose Sharks (@SanJoseSharks) January 25, 2022 Erik Karlsson Surgery Sidelines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4073,"featured_media":124603,"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":[25,4547,34,4548],"tags":[550],"class_list":["post-124577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sharks","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","tag-erik-karlsson"],"modified_by":"Noah Foster, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124577","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\/4073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}