{"id":26362,"date":"2018-04-01T17:26:20","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T21:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=26362"},"modified":"2018-04-01T17:26:20","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T21:26:20","slug":"boston-bruins-lose-defenceman-brandon-carlo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/04\/01\/boston-bruins-lose-defenceman-brandon-carlo\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Bruins Lose Defenceman Brandon Carlo"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Boston Bruins<\/a>\u00a0will be missing sophomore defenceman Brandon Carlo<\/a><\/strong> for quite some time. According to Joe McDonald of the Boston Sports Journal<\/a>, Carlo suffered a broken fibula in the Bruins 5-1 victory over the Florida Panthers<\/a>\u00a0on Saturday. This is the second straight year that the Bruins defenseman has suffered a major injury just before the playoffs. A concussion kept Carlo out of last year’s first-round loss to the Ottawa Senators<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Bruins lose Brandon Carlo to broken leg. Injuries just ravaging team right now<\/p>\n

\u2014 Adrian Dater (@adater) April 1, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Brandon Carlo Suffers Broken Fibula<\/h1>\n
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Brandon Carlo lands awkwardly on his left ankle and gets stretchered off the ice pic.twitter.com\/lcISiyxbW2<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Pete Blackburn (@PeteBlackburn) March 31, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Carlo was injured mid-way through the third period of the Bruins Saturday afternoon win over the Panthers. Carlo suffered the injury when he went down awkwardly while battling for a loose puck with Panthers forward Aleksander Barkov<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

So far this season, he scored six assists in 76 games. Carlo also added 45 minutes in penalties. His possession numbers were 51.5 percent Corsi\u00a0and a relative Corsi of -2.1.<\/p>\n

Over his two-year NHL career, Carlo has played exclusively with the Bruins. He has put up six goals and\u00a016\u00a0assists for 22\u00a0career points in 158\u00a0career games. He was originally drafted in the second-round, 37th\u00a0overall of the 2015\u00a0NHL Entry Draft by the\u00a0Bruins.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel awful,\u201d said defensive partner Torey Krug<\/a><\/strong> to the Boston Herald<\/a>. \u201cI know specifically from talking to him that this (playoffs) was one thing he was looking forward to and obviously he went through it last year as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis year he was excited for it and I feel awful. It was tough break but I know he has a lot of support and a lot good people around him.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Bruins have been hit hard by injuries. Fortunately for Boston, they are starting to get healthy. Captain Zdeno Chara<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>returned from a nine-game absence\u00a0to take Carlo’s place in the line-up for Sunday’s game against the Philadelphia Flyers<\/a>. Fellow defenceman Charlie McAvoy<\/a><\/strong> is also skating and could return soon.<\/p>\n

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\nEmbed from Getty Images<\/a>