{"id":23196,"date":"2018-02-11T19:59:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T00:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=23196"},"modified":"2018-02-11T19:59:34","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T00:59:34","slug":"jack-eichel-suffers-high-ankle-sprain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/02\/11\/jack-eichel-suffers-high-ankle-sprain\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Eichel Suffers High Ankle Sprain"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Buffalo Sabres<\/a>\u00a0disappointing season has gone from bad to worse, as star centre Jack Eichel<\/a> <\/strong>has suffered a high ankle sprain. He is out indefinitely but given the nature of the injury, it is expected\u00a0to be several weeks. The team made the announcement on their official Twitter feed.<\/p>\n

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Injury update: #Sabres<\/a> forward Jack Eichel has been diagnosed with a high-ankle sprain and will be out indefinitely. pic.twitter.com\/afSU7sbof7<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Buffalo Sabres (@BuffaloSabres) February 11, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Buffalo Sabres Centre Jack Eichel Injured<\/h1>\n

Eichel was injured during the Sabres 4-2 win over the Boston Bruins<\/a> on Saturday night. Eichel collided awkwardly with Bruins defenceman Matt Grzelcyk<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>behind the Bruins net late in the first period. He left the game and did not return.<\/p>\n

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BU on BU violence here. An awkward collision between Matt Grzelcyk and Jack Eichel has the Sabres star in major pain. pic.twitter.com\/Ovt7JHCjBG<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Conor Ryan (@ConorRyan_93) February 11, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“I thought everybody stepped their game up when Jack went down,” Sabres coach Phil Housley<\/a> said to the Buffalo News after the game<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So far this season, Eichel scored 22 goals and 31 assists for 53 points in 55 games. He also added 28 minutes in penalties. His possession numbers are 49.7 percent Corsi\u00a0and a relative Corsi of +3.4.<\/p>\n

Since being drafted second overall in the 2015 NHL Draft, Eichel has spent his entire three-year NHL career with the Sabres. He has put up 70 goals and\u00a096\u00a0assists for 166\u00a0career points in\u00a0197\u00a0career games.<\/p>\n

“It’s tough losing Jack,” Sabres goaltender Chad Johnson<\/a><\/strong> said. “He’s our best player and franchise player so it’s tough, but we’re all professionals. We all understand the situation. Guys get injured or hurt so guys have to step up and play more minutes and they stepped up and did that so it was good.”<\/p>\n

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Main Photo:\u00a005 APR 2016: Buffalo Sabres centre Jack Eichel (15) during the game between the New Jersey Devils<\/a> and the Buffalo Sabres played at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Rich Graessle\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Buffalo Sabres\u00a0disappointing season has gone from bad to worse, as star centre Jack Eichel has suffered a high ankle sprain. He is out indefinitely but given the nature of the injury, it is expected\u00a0to be several weeks. The team made the announcement on their official Twitter feed. Injury update: #Sabres forward Jack Eichel has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4202,"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":[3,34],"tags":[182,37,213,38],"class_list":["post-23196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sabres","category-news","tag-buffalo-sabres","tag-hockey","tag-jack-eichel","tag-nhl"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23196","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=23196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}