{"id":22325,"date":"2018-01-25T12:27:33","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T17:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=22325"},"modified":"2018-01-25T12:32:02","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T17:32:02","slug":"panthers-goalie-james-reimer-pulled-groin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/01\/25\/panthers-goalie-james-reimer-pulled-groin\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Panthers Goalie James Reimer Out With Pulled Groin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/nhl-teams\/panthers\/\" target=\"_self\">Florida Panthers<\/a> announced that goalie <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/reimeja01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">James Reimer<\/a><\/strong> is sidelined for a few weeks with a groin injury.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">James Reimer: Is expected to miss a few weeks due to a pulled groin. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SjKH4k4pmV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/SjKH4k4pmV<\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/nhl?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#nhl<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FlaPanthers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#FlaPanthers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Left Wing Lock (@Left_Wing_Lock) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Left_Wing_Lock\/status\/956555370104750080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 25, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1>James Reimer Injured<\/h1>\n<p>Reimer was hurt after kicking out his right leg attempting to stop a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/patergr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Greg Pateryn<\/a><\/strong> slap shot that went wide of the net in Florida&#8217;s 6-1 loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/nhl-teams\/stars\/\" target=\"_self\">Dallas Stars<\/a> on Tuesday night. No one made contact with the Morweena, Manitoba native and he was hesitant to put weight on the affected leg.<\/p>\n<p>So far this season, he is 13-12-5 in 32 games this season. He has a 3.04 goals against average and a .911 save percentage with two shutouts in 2017-18.<\/p>\n<p>Over his 8-year NHL career Reimer has played for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/nhl-teams\/maple-leafs\/\" target=\"_self\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/nhl-teams\/sharks\/\" target=\"_self\">San Jose Sharks<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/nhl-teams\/panthers\/\" target=\"_self\">Florida Panthers<\/a> He has a record of 122-106-33 in 290 career games. Reimer has a 2.78 goals against average and a .915 save percentage with 19 shutouts for his career. He was originally drafted in the 4th round, 99th overall of the 2006 NHL draft by the Toronto Maple Leafs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re already obviously without our big guy, our starting goalie,\u201d Panthers coach <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/boughbo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bob Boughner<\/a><\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/sports\/florida-panthers\/fl-sp-panthers-20180124-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said to reporters in Dallas<\/a>. \u201cAnd then you see your other guy go down. I\u2019m sure that affected the team a little bit on the bench for a while.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>What This Means for the Future<\/h2>\n<p>The Panthers will continue musical chairs with their goalies as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/saterha01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harri Sateri<\/a> replaced Reimer in the lineup. Sateri had a rough outing as he gave up six goals on 36 shots in the loss.<\/p>\n<p>Florida is already without regular starting goalie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/luongro01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roberto Luongo<\/a>, who suffered a lower-body injury in December. The enigmatic netminder is targeting a return to the lineup in February.<\/p>\n<p>Reimer has filled in admirably since the Luongo injury. He&#8217;s started 18 of the last 19 games, including 17 in a row. He&#8217;s posted a 2.59 GAA and was named the league&#8217;s third star of the week on Dec. 24.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:\u00a0ST. PAUL, MN &#8211; JANUARY 02: Florida Panthers Goalie James Reimer (34) follows the play during a NHL game between the Minnesota Wild and Florida Panthers on January 2, 2018 at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, MN.The Wild defeated the Panthers 5-1.(Photo by Nick Wosika\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida Panthers announced that goalie James Reimer is sidelined for a few weeks with a groin injury. James Reimer: Is expected to miss a few weeks due to a pulled groin. https:\/\/t.co\/SjKH4k4pmV #nhl #FlaPanthers &mdash; Left Wing Lock (@Left_Wing_Lock) January 25, 2018 James Reimer Injured Reimer was hurt after kicking out his right leg [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":20933,"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":[6,34],"tags":[322],"class_list":["post-22325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-panthers","category-news","tag-james-reimer"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22325","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=22325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}