{"id":128496,"date":"2022-05-08T12:38:34","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T16:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=128496"},"modified":"2022-05-08T12:38:34","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T16:38:34","slug":"charlie-mcavoy-covid-protocol-game-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2022\/05\/08\/charlie-mcavoy-covid-protocol-game-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Bruins Charlie McAvoy Enters COVID Protocol, Out For Game 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Bruins defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mcavoch01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Charlie McAvoy<\/a> entered COVID protocol this morning, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nhlbruins\/status\/1523332214146043905?s=10&amp;t=8LUBJvnrrsd1zKbz8ICVPg\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">as announced by the team<\/a>. McAvoy will miss Game 4 today in Boston of their First Round series against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/hurricanes\/\" target=\"_self\">Carolina Hurricanes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">UPDATE: Bruins defenseman Charlie McAvoy has been placed in NHL COVID-19 protocol and will not be available for today\u2019s game.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Boston Bruins (@NHLBruins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHLBruins\/status\/1523332214146043905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Charlie McAvoy Enters COVID Protocol<\/h2>\n<p>While the Hurricanes <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2022\/05\/07\/trends-hurricanes-vs-bruins-series\/\" target=\"_self\">have managed to largely limit the Bruins in this series<\/a>, especially in Games 1 and 2, McAvoy has still managed two assists in the first three games of this series while averaging a team-leading 25:15 per game. That&#8217;s nearly six more minutes than Boston&#8217;s next-most-used skater in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/marchbr03.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brad Marchand<\/a> (19:34). <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2022\/05\/02\/bruins-vs-hurricanes-playoff-preview\/\" target=\"_self\">During the regular season<\/a>, McAvoy was fifth on the team in points (first among defencemen) with 10 goals and 46 assists for 56 points in 78 games.<\/p>\n<p>The news couldn&#8217;t come at a worse time for the Bruins as they try to even the series at two. Trade Deadline acquisition <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/lindhha01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hampus Lindholm<\/a> is also out of the lineup with an upper-body injury sustained in Game 2.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means for the Bruins<\/h3>\n<p>McAvoy isn&#8217;t just the best defenceman on the Bruins, he&#8217;s in the conversation for the best two-way D-man in the league. Receiving some of the toughest minutes in the league, McAvoy&#8217;s pairings consistently crush the opposition in terms of possession numbers. Considering Boston&#8217;s strong possession game is likely the lone reason they have a win in this series, this could pose to be an insurmountable loss for the Bruins.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/carlobr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brandon Carlo<\/a> will have to step up in McAvoy&#8217;s place until he&#8217;s able to clear COVID protocol. In this series, the 25-year-old shutdown defender has been rendered scoreless. However, it&#8217;s not as though the Bruins are counting on him for offence.<\/p>\n<p>Moving forward, the Bruins will need more of what they saw from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/swaymje01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jeremy Swayman<\/a> in Game 3. He allowed two goals and finished with a sparkling .926 save percentage in his first playoff start.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"v0rk8ix7Tw1f6bi7xmg6uQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1233033467\" 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:'v0rk8ix7Tw1f6bi7xmg6uQ',sig:'ReSfTklvWg-CpS8RH-t3zIl82FM1bxFsCi5qD0NUW_U=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1233033467',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>Boston Bruins defenceman Charlie McAvoy entered COVID protocol this morning, as announced by the team. McAvoy will miss Game 4 today in Boston of their First Round series against the Carolina Hurricanes. UPDATE: Bruins defenseman Charlie McAvoy has been placed in NHL COVID-19 protocol and will not be available for today\u2019s game. \u2014 Boston Bruins [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3006,"featured_media":128497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[5,4547,34,4548],"tags":[7214,6120,2000],"class_list":["post-128496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bruins","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","tag-2022-stanley-cup-playoffs","tag-boston-bruins-news","tag-charlie-mcavoy"],"modified_by":"Josh Erickson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128496","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\/3006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}