{"id":22832,"date":"2018-02-05T18:43:42","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T23:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=22832"},"modified":"2018-02-05T18:43:42","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T23:43:42","slug":"pittsburgh-penguins-forward-patric-hornqvist-week-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/02\/05\/pittsburgh-penguins-forward-patric-hornqvist-week-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Penguins Forward Patric Hornqvist Week-to-Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/nhl-teams\/penguins\/\" target=\"_self\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a>\u00a0head 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>\u00a0<\/strong>announced on Monday that winger <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/hornqpa01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Patric Hornqvist<\/a><\/strong> will be out for at least a couple of weeks with lower-body injury. Hornqvist will officially be listed as week-to-week.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Coach Sullivan on players absent from practice: \u201cHornqvist is week-to-week with a lower body injury. Kessel was a maintenance day &#8211; he didn\u2019t feel well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pittsburgh Penguins (@penguins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/penguins\/status\/960572442832928770?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 5, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1>Patric Hornqvist out with a Lower-Body Injury<\/h1>\n<p>Hornqvist was injured in Friday&#8217;s win over the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/nhl-teams\/capitals\/\" target=\"_self\">Washington Capitals<\/a> and did not play in Saturday&#8217;s loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/nhl-teams\/devils\/\" target=\"_self\">New Jersey Devils<\/a>. It appears that the injury occured in the third period of Friday&#8217;s game. Hornqvist took a hard hit from former Penguins defenceman <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/o\/orpikbr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brooks Orpik<\/a><\/strong>. He left the game and did not return.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Brooks Orpik sends Patric Hornqvist down the tunnel with this big hit <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QSkZSZCWWG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/QSkZSZCWWG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ian Oland (@ianoland) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ianoland\/status\/959610304060624896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 3, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So far this season, Hornqvist scored 16 goals and 15 assists for 31 points in 49 games. He also added 34 minutes in penalties. His possession numbers are 54.2 percent Corsi\u00a0and a relative Corsi of +2.2.<\/p>\n<p>Over his ten-year NHL career\u00a0Hornqvist\u00a0has played for the Pittsburgh Penguins\u00a0and Nashville Predators. He has put up\u00a0190\u00a0goals and\u00a0203 assists for 393\u00a0career points in\u00a0686\u00a0career games. He was originally drafted in the seventh<em>\u00a0<\/em>round,\u00a0230th\u00a0overall of the 2005<i>\u00a0<\/i>NHL draft by the Predators. He was the hero, scoring the winning goal for the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 6 of last year&#8217;s Stanley Cup Final against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/nhl-teams\/predators\/\" target=\"_self\">Nashville Predators<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the injury, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/penguins\/status\/960572942257217536\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sullivan said<\/a>,\u00a0\u201cWe\u2019re going to miss Hornqvist\u2019s energy. This game is rooted in emotion and passion. Hornqvist epitomizes that. We need to bring that up in order to be successful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo: BOSTON, MA &#8211; JANUARY 26: Pittsburgh Penguins right wing Patric Hornqvist (72) skates during warm up before a regular season NHL game between the Boston Bruins and the Pittsburgh Penguins on January 26, 2017 at TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. The Bruins defeated the Penguins 4-3. (Photo by Fred Kfoury III\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh Penguins\u00a0head coach Mike Sullivan\u00a0announced on Monday that winger Patric Hornqvist will be out for at least a couple of weeks with lower-body injury. Hornqvist will officially be listed as week-to-week. Coach Sullivan on players absent from practice: \u201cHornqvist is week-to-week with a lower body injury. Kessel was a maintenance day &#8211; he didn\u2019t feel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17759,"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":[12,34],"tags":[37,38,904,44],"class_list":["post-22832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-penguins","category-news","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-patric-hornqvist","tag-pittsburgh-penguins"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22832","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}