{"id":2237,"date":"2016-10-10T00:03:34","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T04:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=2237"},"modified":"2016-10-11T13:39:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T17:39:39","slug":"jonathan-huberdeau-miss-3-4-months-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2016\/10\/10\/jonathan-huberdeau-miss-3-4-months-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Huberdeau to Miss 3-4 Months With Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Florida Panthers<\/strong> confirmed early Sunday afternoon that forward <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/huberjo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jonathan Huberdeau<\/a><\/strong> suffered a lower-body injury and would miss three to four months as a result. \u00a0The injury occurred during the Panthers final pre-season game against the <strong>New Jersey Devils<\/strong> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">3 to 4 months out for Jonathan Huberdeau. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/panthers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#panthers<\/a> confirmed it a few seconds ago.  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/tvasports?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#tvasports<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Renaud Lavoie (@renlavoietva) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/renlavoietva\/status\/785165024742572032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 9, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1>Jonathan Huberdeau To Miss 3-4 Months With Injury<\/h1>\n<p>The injury happened when Huberdeau got tied up behind the New Jersey net with Devils defenseman <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/kalinse01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sergey Kalinin<\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0In the scrum, Kalinin&#8217;s skate blade came down hard on Huberdeau&#8217;s lower leg\/heal. \u00a0Instantaneously Huberdeau was in great pain and began hobbling around on the ice. \u00a0He was later assisted off the ice and to the dressing room. \u00a0Before Sunday&#8217;s announcement, the injury was described as a lower-body injury and that Jonathan Huberdeau would be out &#8220;long-term&#8221;. \u00a0But, it was revealed it was an Achilles laceration and that the recovery time would indeed be three to four months, placing Huberdeau at a March return period.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Huberdeau leaves game with apparent leg injury\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jxlAA4Vh_bc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Huberdeau played in 76 games last season for the Panthers, scoring 20 goals, and adding 39 assists. He has played in a total of 272 games, all with the Panthers, since debuting in 2012-2013. \u00a0His career includes 58 goals and 114 assists. \u00a0Just this September, the 23 year old left winger signed a six year, $35.4 million contract extension with Florida. \u00a0He joins fellow teammate <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/bjugsni01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nick Bjugstad<\/a><\/strong> (Finger) as Panthers players who will not be debuting in the season opener Thursday, October 13th, when they host the same team mentioned above, the New Jersey Devils.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/523922712\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 72.558923% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/523922712?et=P0nSpdVxTC16WNuljJUx5g&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=vm9Mc3U5KPQsT5OATWcrsChTaCpWSuuyE-ulUNgYP3Q=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"431\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida Panthers confirmed early Sunday afternoon that forward Jonathan Huberdeau suffered a lower-body injury and would miss three to four months as a result. \u00a0The injury occurred during the Panthers final pre-season game against the New Jersey Devils on Saturday. 3 to 4 months out for Jonathan Huberdeau. #panthers confirmed it a few seconds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1187,"featured_media":2253,"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":"1476021120","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"Jonathan Huberdeau suffers lower body injury and is to miss 3-4 months","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,6],"tags":[106,37,306,38],"class_list":["post-2237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-panthers","tag-florida-panthers","tag-hockey","tag-jonathan-huberdeau","tag-nhl"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237","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\/1187"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}