{"id":25391,"date":"2018-03-14T20:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T00:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=25391"},"modified":"2018-03-14T20:00:31","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T00:00:31","slug":"vancouver-canucks-erik-gudbranson-to-undergo-shoulder-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/03\/14\/vancouver-canucks-erik-gudbranson-to-undergo-shoulder-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Canucks Erik Gudbranson To Undergo Shoulder Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The injury news continues to get worse for <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/nhl-teams\/canucks\/\" target=\"_self\">Vancouver Canucks<\/a> defenseman <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/gudbrer01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Erik Gudbranson<\/a><\/strong>. He originally suffered a shoulder injury on November 22nd and missed 12 games. He will now likely be out for the seasons as the Canucks announced he will undergo shoulder surgery.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Gudbranson was removed from the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Canucks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Canucks<\/a> active roster today to undergo upcoming shoulder surgery. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ioOx6Fkts8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/ioOx6Fkts8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Vancouver Canucks (@Canucks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Canucks\/status\/973992617984761856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 14, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1><strong>Erik Gudbranson To Have Shoulder Surgery<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Gudbranson was involved in many rumours during the NHL trade deadline. Instead, the defenseman signed a three-year, $12 million\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/02\/20\/vancouver-canucks-sign-erik-gudbranson-contract-extension\/\" target=\"_self\">contract extension<\/a> to remain in Vancouver. He was originally\u00a0acquired by the Canucks in a trade that sent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mccanja01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Jared McCann<\/strong><\/a> and two draft picks to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/nhl-teams\/panthers\/\" target=\"_self\">Florida Panthers<\/a> in May of 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cErik is an important part of our team and provides a physical element to our blueline,\u201d Canucks general manager<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/benniji01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jim Benning<\/a><\/strong> said <a href=\"http:\/\/nhl.nbcsports.com\/2018\/02\/20\/canucks-sign-erik-gudbranson-to-three-year-extension\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on the extension<\/a>. \u201cHis leadership qualities help us as we continue to integrate younger players in our lineup.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers have not been in Gudbranson&#8217;s favour over his career. In 52 games this season, he has just two goals and three assists.\u00a0His Corsi for sits at 43.9% while he has a relative Corsi of -6.0, the second worst of his career.<\/p>\n<p>Over his career, he has 14 goals and 40 assists in 391 games. The possession metrics don&#8217;t look much better over his entire career. Gudbranson has a career Corsi for of 47.9 percent while his relative numbers sit at -3.2.<\/p>\n<p>Gudbranson&#8217;s injury is just another to add to a lengthy list of Canucks that are currently out. He becomes the eighth player to be added to the injury report. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/tanevch01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chris Tanev<\/a><\/strong>,<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/boesebr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brock Boeser<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/baertsv01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sven Baertschi<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/e\/erikslo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Loui Eriksson<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/granlma01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Markus Granlund<\/a><\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/gauncbr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Brendan Gaunce<\/strong><\/a>, and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/dorsede01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Derek Dorsett<\/a><\/strong> highlight the rest of the list.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What This Means For The Future<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>For Gudbranson, this likely ends a season in which there have not been many positives for him or the team. The Canucks are far out of the playoff picture and sit with the third-worst record at 25-39-9. Their 59 points are only three ahead of the last-place Buffalo Sabres.<\/p>\n<p>With the extension set to kick in next season, only time will tell if Gudbranson is able to turn around a career that has not seen many positives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The injury news continues to get worse for Vancouver Canucks defenseman Erik Gudbranson. He originally suffered a shoulder injury on November 22nd and missed 12 games. He will now likely be out for the seasons as the Canucks announced he will undergo shoulder surgery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":6875,"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":[26,34],"tags":[741,37,38,158],"class_list":["post-25391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canucks","category-news","tag-erik-gudbranson","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-vancouver-canucks"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25391","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\/116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}