{"id":18921,"date":"2017-11-11T22:57:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T03:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=18921"},"modified":"2017-11-11T22:57:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T03:57:54","slug":"zack-smith-dislocated-thumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2017\/11\/11\/zack-smith-dislocated-thumb\/","title":{"rendered":"Zack Smith Sidelined Three Weeks With Dislocated Thumb"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ottawa Senators<\/a> announced<\/a> Saturday morning that forward Zack Smith<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0suffered a dislocated thumb, which will keep him out for at least three weeks. Smith suffered the injury in Friday’s game against the Colorado Avalanche<\/a> in Sweden.<\/p>\n

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#Sens<\/a> coach Boucher confirms that Zack Smith suffered a dislocated left thumb on Friday and that he will miss approximately three weeks.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Sens communications (@Media_Sens) November 11, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Zack Smith Sidelined Three Weeks With Dislocated Thumb<\/h1>\n

Smith currently sits with six assists in 12 games played for the Ottawa Senators. He found himself on the wing with newly acquired Senators forward Matt Duchene<\/a><\/strong> on Friday. The injury comes at a costly time. The Senators are already missing Bobby Ryan<\/a><\/strong> from their top-six after suffering a broken finger<\/a> in October. With Duchene on his line, Smith was looking forward to having a center who he could build off of. All of Smith’s six points are assists, leaving him goalless to start the new season.<\/p>\n

Zack Smith is coming off a 32 point season in 2016-17. He scored 16 goals while also adding 16 assistsn. Smith had a career year in the 2015-16 season. The forward scored 25 goals that year, a career high. With this injury, he will have to wait awhile until he can return to action in hopes of scoring his first of the year.<\/p>\n

Value of Zack Smith to the Ottawa Senators<\/h2>\n

Although some people might argue the fact that Smith is not a top-six forward, the Sens coaching staff disagrees. They like Smith’s play on the ice. He is asked to be a sparkplug and provide energy when things aren’t going the team’s way. While Smith usually plays\u00a0top-nine minutes, when the Senators have a healthy roster, he is a serviceable player to move up the lineup when injuries hit. Smith can play the wing and center, and that versatility will be missed by the club.<\/p>\n

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The Ottawa Senators announced Saturday morning that forward Zack Smith\u00a0suffered a dislocated thumb, which will keep him out for at least three weeks. Smith suffered the injury in Friday’s game against the Colorado Avalanche in Sweden. #Sens coach Boucher confirms that Zack Smith suffered a dislocated left thumb on Friday and that he will miss […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2203,"featured_media":5817,"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":[8,34],"tags":[816,766,70,806],"class_list":["post-18921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-senators","category-news","tag-bobby-ryan","tag-matt-duchene","tag-ottawa-senators","tag-zack-smith"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18921","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\/2203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}