{"id":28510,"date":"2018-05-05T20:19:30","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T00:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=28510"},"modified":"2018-05-05T20:19:30","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T00:19:30","slug":"boston-bruins-torrey-krug-out-for-game-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/05\/05\/boston-bruins-torrey-krug-out-for-game-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Bruins Torey Krug Out For Game 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/bruins\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Boston Bruins<\/a> announced that defenseman <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/krugto01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Torey Krug<\/a><\/strong> is sidelined for at least Game 5 of its playoff series with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/lightning\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> with a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bruins D Torey Krug is out for Game 5. Doesn\u2019t look good. He didn\u2019t make the trip to Tampa. Nick Holden will go in.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dan Rosen (@drosennhl) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/drosennhl\/status\/992858967436034049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 5, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1>Torey Krug Injured<\/h1>\n<p>The Livonia, Michigan native left the game when he crashed into the boards feet first in Boston&#8217;s 4-3 overtime loss to Tampa Bay in Game 4 on Friday night. Krug was battling Lightning forward <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/killoal01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alex Killorn<\/a><\/strong> for the puck when the injury occurred.<\/p>\n<p>So far this season, he scored 14 goals and 45 assists for 59 points in 76 games. He also added 36 minutes in penalties. His possession numbers were 54.6 percent Corsi\u00a0and a relative Corsi of 1.1.<\/p>\n<p>Over his 7-year NHL career, Krug has only played for the Boston Bruins. He has put up 52 goals and 183 assists for 183 career points in 235 career games. Krug has totaled three goals and nine assists for 12 points in 11 playoff games this postseason. He came to the Bruins as an undrafted free agent and was a standout for three seasons at Michigan State.<\/p>\n<p>The Bruins <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/nhl\/news\/nhl-playoffs-2018-torey-klug-injury-update-bruins-defenseman-knocked-out-lower-body-injury-lightning\/hjz5cj8ochjj1vgt998rqv92y\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">will be without two regular defensemen<\/a> as Krug and<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/carlobr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brandon Carlo<\/a><\/strong> will be out. Carlo is out for the season after having surgery on a fractured ankle.<\/p>\n<h2>What This Means for the Future<\/h2>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/holdeni01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nick Holden<\/a><\/strong> will replace Krug on the blueline for Sunday&#8217;s pivotal game. Holden came over at the trade deadline from the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/rangers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Rangers<\/a>. Holden has four goals and three assists in 73 games this season and has only played one playoff game his postseason.<\/p>\n<p>Krug is one of the team&#8217;s better offensive defenseman and he will be missed. He&#8217;s made the most of his first postseason since 2014. The Bruins defense has made some key turnovers as they let the lead slip away at home.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no word if Krug would be available for Game 6 if Boston staves off elimination. The Bruins will need Krug if they are to overturn the 3-1 deficit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Image Credit:<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/953997964\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 71.38047% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/953997964?et=hra3KDo_Q6x_JuqFoiAqLg&amp;tld=com&amp;sig=DmX-psQgyk_ku6C0092HMt5glzA-x-Q7XEjwVIcDFJ0=&amp;caption=true&amp;ver=1\" width=\"594\" height=\"424\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Bruins announced that defenseman Torey Krug is sidelined for at least Game 5 of its playoff series with the Tampa Bay Lightning with a lower-body injury. Bruins D Torey Krug is out for Game 5. Doesn\u2019t look good. He didn\u2019t make the trip to Tampa. Nick Holden will go in. &mdash; Dan Rosen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":28516,"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":[5],"tags":[3186,997,90,671,912,1109,42,1535],"class_list":["post-28510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bruins","tag-2018-stanley-cup-playoffs","tag-alex-killorn","tag-boston-bruins","tag-brandon-carlo","tag-nick-holden","tag-stanley-cup-playoffs","tag-tampa-bay-lightning","tag-torey-krug"],"modified_by":"Tyger Allen, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28510","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=28510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}