{"id":20765,"date":"2017-12-30T18:49:50","date_gmt":"2017-12-30T23:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=20765"},"modified":"2017-12-30T18:49:50","modified_gmt":"2017-12-30T23:49:50","slug":"20765","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2017\/12\/30\/20765\/","title":{"rendered":"Nashville Predators Place Filip Forsberg on IR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/nhl-teams\/predators\/\" target=\"_self\">Nashville Predators<\/a> announced on Saturday that forward <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/f\/forsbfi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Filip Forsberg<\/a> is sidelined indefinitely with an upper-body injury. They have placed the star winger on injured reserve.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Preds?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Preds<\/a> recall forward Frederick Gaudreau from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mkeadmirals?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@mkeadmirals<\/a>; place Filip Forsberg on Injured Reserve. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MINvsNSH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#MINvsNSH<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/buWZEJHZLy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/buWZEJHZLy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nashville Predators (@PredsNHL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PredsNHL\/status\/947225683960455169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 30, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1>Filip Forsberg Injured<\/h1>\n<p>The 23-year-old Swedish winger left midway through the third period of Friday night&#8217;s loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/nhl-teams\/wild\/\" target=\"_self\">Minnesota Wild<\/a> in St. Paul, Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>He has scored 15 goals and 19 assists for 34 points so far this season and added 22 penalty minutes. His possession numbers were 58.3 percent Corsi\u00a0and a relative Corsi of +13.3.<\/p>\n<p>Forsberg has played his entire six-season NHL career with the Predators. Forsberg has put up 106 goals and 119 assists for 225 career points in 301 career games. He was drafted 11th overall in the first round of the 2012 NHL draft by the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/nhl-teams\/capitals\/\" target=\"_self\">Washington Capitals<\/a>. He was traded to the Predators as a part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/e\/eratma01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Martin Erat<\/a> deal on April 3, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The Swedish sniper was the first player in the team history to reach 30 points in 30 games. Head coach <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/laviope01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Peter Laviolette<\/a> stated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/sports\/nhl\/predators\/2017\/12\/29\/predators-filip-forsberg-leaves-loss-wild-unspecified-problem\/991971001\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the importance of the loss of his team&#8217;s top scorer<\/a> to Predators beat reporter Adam Vingan of <em>The Tennessean<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I think everybody appreciates that he&#8217;s been one of our top scorers and one of our top players consistently year after year since he&#8217;s been here,&#8221;<\/em> Laviolette said.<\/p>\n<h2>What This Means for the Future<\/h2>\n<p>Nashville will be without its leading scorer for at least the next three games, but he will be eligible to return on January 6th when the Predators go to\u00a0California to face-off against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/nhl-teams\/kings\/\" target=\"_self\">Los Angeles Kings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s game will be the first he&#8217;s missed since April 2013. Forsberg was only one of nine players to play every game since the start of the 2014-15 season according to Bob Waterman of the Elias Sports Bureau. He had played in 283 consecutive games before being put on injured reserve.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">From the venerable <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/esbbob?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@esbbob<\/a>, Filip Forsberg was one of nine NHL players to appear in all of his team&#39;s regular-season games since the start of the 2014-15 season. The others \u2014 Alzner, Doughty, Burns, Yandle, Cogliano, Kessel, Marleau and Daniel Sedin.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Vingan (@AdamVingan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamVingan\/status\/947217491234869248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 30, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Predators have called up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/gaudrfr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frederick Gaudreau<\/a> to fill the empty roster spot. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/subbapk01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">P.K. 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They have placed the star winger on injured reserve. #Preds recall forward Frederick Gaudreau from @mkeadmirals; place Filip Forsberg on Injured Reserve. #MINvsNSHhttps:\/\/t.co\/buWZEJHZLy &mdash; Nashville Predators (@PredsNHL) December 30, 2017 Filip Forsberg Injured The 23-year-old Swedish winger left [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":20783,"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":[31,34],"tags":[460,1731,243,1547],"class_list":["post-20765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predators","category-news","tag-filip-forsberg","tag-frederic-gaudreau","tag-nashville-predators","tag-peter-laviolette"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20765","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=20765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}