{"id":134101,"date":"2022-12-14T12:22:15","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T17:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=134101"},"modified":"2022-12-14T12:22:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T17:22:15","slug":"tim-stutzle-ottawa-senators-injury-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2022\/12\/14\/tim-stutzle-ottawa-senators-injury-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Senators Issue Update on Star Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">There&#8217;s good and bad news today coming out of Ottawa. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/smithdj01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">D.J. Smith<\/a> has announced that Ottawa Senators forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/stuetti02.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tim St\u00fctzle<\/a> will be out for at least a week with a shoulder injury. The best part of the news is that he suffered no structural damage to his shoulder. Reinforcements are coming, and St\u00fctzle&#8217;s return is not far off. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\">Tim St\u00fctzle Injured at Least One More Week<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DJ Smith &#8211; Stutzle out at least a week.  Nothing structural with his shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TSN 1200 Ottawa (@TSN1200) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSN1200\/status\/1603053540590616576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 14, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Tim St\u00fctzle&#8217;s injury will last <\/span><span class=\"s1\">at least one week. His impending return will be coming up shortly. It is a tough blow when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/n\/norrijo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Josh Norris<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2022\/10\/26\/ottawa-senators-star-centre-out-long-term\/\" target=\"_self\">is already on the shelf<\/a>, but at least the team will get their other young gun back sooner than later. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Reinforcements Are Coming<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">St\u00fctzle is a crucial part of the Ottawa Senators&#8217; attack. He was on a point-per-game pace before getting injured. In 28 games this season, he has 10 goals, 17 assists, and 27 points. And, despite missing time, he still sits third in goals and second in points on the team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The team currently has only three players who have above ten goals. A lot of the team&#8217;s offence comes from the top-six group, and depth is an issue. Even though that is where St\u00fctzle does slide into the top six, he takes some pressure off players like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/debrial01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alex DeBrincat<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/tkachbr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brady Tkachuk<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2022\/12\/10\/shane-pinto-ottawa-senators-development-2022-23-season\/\" target=\"_self\">as well as another young counterpart<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/pintosh01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shane Pinto<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">With him returning, it will provide more balance offensively and should have the team and the fans jumping for joy. Considering he can play both centre and wing, it helps round out the lineup.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Senators Marching Forward <\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Ottawa Senators will keep marching forward, especially once Tim St\u00fctzle returns. As of right now, the big guns are carrying the load. Captain Tkachuk has been sensational, as well as Ottawa product <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/giroucl01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Claude Giroux<\/a>. The team is starving for goals <a href=\"https:\/\/moneypuck.com\/teams.htm\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">as they rank<\/a> 26th in 5v5 scoring and 19th in all situations. St\u00fctzle will be a boost as he has good finishing ability. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"bnEXqjBbRxdUjBCEfpe9zA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1447495076\" 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:'bnEXqjBbRxdUjBCEfpe9zA',sig:'PldcsdufEX6TxttI9-wvMx1DkjbuOchIIeseXdnr2_E=',w:'594px',h:'407px',items:'1447495076',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>There&#8217;s good and bad news today coming out of Ottawa. D.J. Smith has announced that Ottawa Senators forward Tim St\u00fctzle will be out for at least a week with a shoulder injury. The best part of the news is that he suffered no structural damage to his shoulder. Reinforcements are coming, and St\u00fctzle&#8217;s return is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4194,"featured_media":134104,"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":[8,4547,6671,34,4548],"tags":[5755,4230],"class_list":["post-134101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-senators","category-hockey","category-injuries","category-news","category-nhl","tag-ottawa-senators-news","tag-tim-stutzle"],"modified_by":"Josh Erickson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134101","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\/4194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}