{"id":19538,"date":"2017-11-28T15:51:45","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T20:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=19538"},"modified":"2017-11-28T15:51:45","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T20:51:45","slug":"matt-murray-week-lower-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2017\/11\/28\/matt-murray-week-lower-body-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Murray Week-to-Week With Lower Body Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/penguins\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Pittsburgh Penguins<\/strong><\/a> will be without starting goaltender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/murrama02\/gamelog\/2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Matt Murray<\/strong><\/a> for a few weeks as head coach <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/sullimi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mike Sullivan<\/a><\/strong> announced today that he&#8217;s week-to-week with a lower-body injury. The injury happened last night against the Philadelphia Flyers when <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/v\/voracja01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jakub Voracek<\/a><\/strong> slid into him on a breakaway. Murray&#8217;s leg looked like it bent a weird way and he couldn&#8217;t put any weight on his right skate as he left the ice.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Coach Sullivan on Murray: \u201cMatt is week-to-week with a lower-body injury.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1x4NoKj8O6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/1x4NoKj8O6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pittsburgh Penguins (@penguins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/penguins\/status\/935572994113593344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 28, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1>Matt Murray Week-to-Week With Lower Body Injury<\/h1>\n<p>Bob McKenzie of TSN reported before Mike Sullivan gave an update that it&#8217;ll likely be a two-to-four week injury:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Early indications, subject to refinement of course, but sounds like Matt Murray\u2019s injury likely to be in the two-to-four week range. May get more specifics from PIT later today. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BEHbgp6pUK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/BEHbgp6pUK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bob McKenzie (@TSNBobMcKenzie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSNBobMcKenzie\/status\/935556912761802753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 28, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an undesirable positive for the Penguins, as it could&#8217;ve been a lot worse for Murray. With Murray down, the Penguins will turn to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/j\/jarrytr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Tristan<\/strong> <strong>Jarry<\/strong><\/a> as he&#8217;s looked stellar when playing just a few games. He allowed two goals in relief last night but before that, he had a great outing against the Lightning on Saturday. He stopped 33 of 35 shots which was good for a .943 save percentage and on top of it, earned his first NHL win. One of his saves that game ended up being this spectacular one:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">folks, tristan jarry is going to be good <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kdxh74lcBy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/kdxh74lcBy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ego (@notmalkinego) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/notmalkinego\/status\/934596340042162176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 26, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Before Matt Murray went down, He was 11-7-1 in 19 games that he finished and has a .906 save percentage which is the lowest it&#8217;s been through his young career. Take out the Blackhawks game where he relieved<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/n\/niemian02.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Antti Niemi<\/a><\/strong> and gave up six goals, it looks a little better. Before he got injured last night, he stopped 20 of 22 shots which was good for a .909 save percentage.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t seem like general manager <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/rutheji01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jim Rutherford<\/a> will be acquiring a backup goaltender to Jarry for these next few weeks according to Jason Mackey of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Asked GMJR if he feels he needs to add a veteran backup goalie: &quot;Not necessarily. Obviously now we\u2019ll keep a closer watch on it. It\u2019s not something I\u2019m trying to do right now.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jason Mackey (@JMackeyPG) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JMackeyPG\/status\/935590562857709569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 28, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This means that <strong>Casey Desmith<\/strong> will be Jarry&#8217;s backup for the foreseeable future unless they make a move.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"KAmIgSGYT3tpLBNfXGn8Jg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/858306036\" 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:'KAmIgSGYT3tpLBNfXGn8Jg',sig:'KzXxc1aHPVujJwO8zYEe-o1KrniZ07IcWf-OlVS6ztI=',w:'594px',h:'413px',items:'858306036',caption: true ,tld:'ca',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Penguins will be without starting goaltender Matt Murray for a few weeks as head coach Mike Sullivan announced today that he&#8217;s week-to-week with a lower-body injury. The injury happened last night against the Philadelphia Flyers when Jakub Voracek slid into him on a breakaway. Murray&#8217;s leg looked like it bent a weird way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":574,"featured_media":19548,"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":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,34],"tags":[37,1576,478,38,955,44],"class_list":["post-19538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-penguins","category-news","tag-hockey","tag-injury","tag-matt-murray","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-news","tag-pittsburgh-penguins"],"modified_by":"Colton Praill","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19538","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\/574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}