{"id":24426,"date":"2018-02-27T11:58:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T16:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=24426"},"modified":"2018-02-27T11:58:04","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T16:58:04","slug":"pittsburgh-penguins-matt-murray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/02\/27\/pittsburgh-penguins-matt-murray\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Penguins Goalie Matt Murray Sidelined with Concussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/penguins\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> announced that goalie <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/murrama02.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matt Murray<\/a><\/strong> is sidelined indefinitely with a head injury.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Coach Sullivan on Murray: &quot;Matt was diagnosed with a concussion. Yesterday he got hit with a puck in practice.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pittsburgh Penguins (@penguins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/penguins\/status\/968510065299902464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 27, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/murrama02.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matt Murray<\/a> Injured<\/h1>\n<p>The 23-year-old Thunder Bay, Ontario native was hit in the head with a puck from an <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/maattol01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Olli Maatta<\/a><\/strong> shot. Murray left practice early and head 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><\/strong> updated the press on his starting goalie&#8217;s status earlier on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>So far this season, he is 23-12-2 in 41 games with a 2.89 goals against average and .909 save percentage. Murray also has one shutout this season.<\/p>\n<p>Over his three-year NHL career Murray has played for only for the Pittsburgh Penguins. He has a 64-25-7 career record in 103 career games and 97 starts. Murray has .918 save percentage and a 2.52 goals against average with six shutouts. He has backstopped the Penguins to two Stanley Cups. He was originally drafted in the third round, 83rd overall of the 2012 NHL draft by the Pittsburgh Penguins<i>.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Sullivan will now go with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/j\/jarrytr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tristan Jarry<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/desmica01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Casey DeSmith<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>between the pipes. Jarry was called up from AHL Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton on emergency basis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe in the guys we have,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/sports\/penguins\/2018\/02\/27\/Matt-Murray-diagnosed-with-a-concussion-penguins\/stories\/201802270101\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sullivan told the media<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019ve had some success with some inexperienced guys.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>What This Means for the Future<\/h2>\n<p>The Pens will once again be without their starting goalie as he suffers another injury. Murray is the clear number one goalie for Pittsburgh\u00a0but has been plagued by injuries since taking over the number one spot from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/f\/fleurma01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marc-Andre Fleury<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Jarry has been solid in relief of Murray this season with a 10-4-2 mark in 20 appearances. He possesses a 2.58 goals against average and .916 save percentage. DeSmith is 3-3-0 in seven appearances with a 2.23 goals against average and .926 save percentage<\/p>\n<p>The Murray injury also might have been the impetus for the team to ask about <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/sabres\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buffalo Sabres<\/a> goalie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/lehnero01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robin Lehner<\/a> at the trade deadline. That report coming from Darren Dreger of TSN. Obviously, no move was made, something the Penguins may regret if Murray is out long-term.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo by Thearon W. Henderson\/Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Penguins announced that goalie Matt Murray is sidelined indefinitely with a head injury. Coach Sullivan on Murray: &quot;Matt was diagnosed with a concussion. Yesterday he got hit with a puck in practice.&quot; &mdash; Pittsburgh Penguins (@penguins) February 27, 2018 Matt Murray Injured The 23-year-old Thunder Bay, Ontario native was hit in the head [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":1665,"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":[12,34],"tags":[182,1975,557,478,1020,608,44,1269,477],"class_list":["post-24426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-penguins","category-news","tag-buffalo-sabres","tag-casey-desmith","tag-marc-andre-fleury","tag-matt-murray","tag-mike-sullivan","tag-olli-maatta","tag-pittsburgh-penguins","tag-robin-lehner","tag-tristan-jarry"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24426","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=24426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}