{"id":137073,"date":"2023-04-25T09:19:29","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T13:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=137073"},"modified":"2023-04-25T09:19:29","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T13:19:29","slug":"seattle-kraken-forward-to-miss-game-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2023\/04\/25\/seattle-kraken-forward-to-miss-game-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Kraken Forward To Miss Game 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The second-year Seattle Kraken have given a good account of themselves in the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. However, the team suffered a big injury blow with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mccanja01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-04-25_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jared McCann<\/a> injured and set to miss Game 5. Seattle Kraken head coach Dave Hakstol revealed the news after the 3-2 overtime win over the Colorado Avalanche. Hakstol added that the Kraken&#8217;s leading scorer could be out for longer.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SEA coach Dave Hakstol says Jared McCann will miss Game 5 and possibly longer. He disagrees with penalty being reduced to a minor. Very unhappy.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FriedgeHNIC\/status\/1650740598528155648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 25, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Jared McCann Injured<\/h2>\n<p>McCann <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/sports\/other\/kraken-lose-jared-mccann-to-injury-in-1st-period-of-game-4\/ar-AA1ai8fy\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was injured after a hit<\/a> from Colorado defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/makarca01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-04-25_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cale Makar<\/a> in the first period of Game 4 of the Western Conference first-round series. Makar was originally assessed a five-minute penalty, but that was reduced to a two-minute minor. Seattle would score on the ensuing power play to go up 2-0. However, Colorado would tie the game before Seattle would go onto win the game thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/e\/eberljo01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-04-25_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jordan Eberle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hakstol may not have been happy with the initial call being changed, but Makar will now have a hearing for the hit with the NHL Department of Player Safety. This could lead to a suspension, which would be a big loss for the Avalanche.<\/p>\n<p>McCann has played for the Vancouver Canucks, Florida Panthers, Pittsburgh Penguins and the Kraken over his eight-year NHL career. However, he&#8217;s found a home with Seattle and netted a career-high 40 goals this season. The Stratford, Ontario native has 133 goals and 142 assists for 275 points in 506 career games.<\/p>\n<h3>Impact of Jared McCann Being Injured<\/h3>\n<p>It would be a big blow to lose the Kraken&#8217;s top-scorer. However, players like Eberle and others have stepped up. Seattle has given the defending Stanley Cup champions all they can handle in this series.<\/p>\n<p>Makar being suspended would also be a big loss for Colorado because he&#8217;s an all-world defenceman. This <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2023\/04\/23\/momentum-avalanche-vs-kraken-series\/\" target=\"_self\">series is a lot closer<\/a> than people anticipated and losing the Norris Trophy winner would hurt Colorado.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main photo by: Stephen Brashear-USA TODAY Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second-year Seattle Kraken have given a good account of themselves in the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. However, the team suffered a big injury blow with Jared McCann injured and set to miss Game 5. Seattle Kraken head coach Dave Hakstol revealed the news after the 3-2 overtime win over the Colorado [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":137074,"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":[5369,28,4547,6671,34,4548],"tags":[1515,3339,6894],"class_list":["post-137073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seattle-kraken","category-avalanche","category-hockey","category-injuries","category-news","category-nhl","tag-cale-makar","tag-jared-mccann","tag-seattle-kraken-news"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137073","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\/2352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}