{"id":30165,"date":"2018-05-31T18:18:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T22:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=30165"},"modified":"2018-05-31T18:47:03","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T22:47:03","slug":"evgeny-kuznetsov-day-to-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/05\/31\/evgeny-kuznetsov-day-to-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Capitals Centre Evgeny Kuznetsov Day To Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/capitals\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washington Capitals<\/a> announced that top line forward <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/kuzneev01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Evgeny Kuznetsov<\/a><\/strong> is day-to-day with an upper-body injury. The team may know more tomorrow, but his status remains up in the air for the rest of the series.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Barry Trotz had no update on Evgeny Kuznetsov (upper-body) today basically because Caps have been traveling today. Trotz said Kuznetsov is day to day and he might know more tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Capitals already announced their practice tomorrow will be an optional.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Gulitti (@TomGulittiNHL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomGulittiNHL\/status\/1002304944937099264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 31, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1>Evgeny Kuznetsov Injured In Game Two<\/h1>\n<p>The injury occurred\u00a0during the high tempo first period in Game 2 after a high hit from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mcnabbr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brayden McNabb<\/a> against the Russian forward. The hit seemed to crush the 26-year-old&#8217;s arm and left him in obvious\u00a0discomfort leaving the ice. He did not return. There was no penalty given for this high hit, which again leads to a discussion\u00a0regarding inconsistencies with the officiating\u00a0this playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>In the regular season, he scored 27 goals and 56 assists for 83 points. This had him second for goals and points for his team behind <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/o\/ovechal01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alex Ovechkin<\/a><\/strong>. He also added 48 minutes in penalties. His possession numbers were 48.6 percent Corsi\u00a0and a relative Corsi of 0.5.<\/p>\n<p>Kuznetsov also leads the league\u00a0in playoff points, scoring 11 goals and 14 assists totaling 25 points. This injury will be a great loss to the Capitals. He was centering the top line with Ovechkin and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/w\/wilsoto01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tom Wilson<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Over his five-year NHL career, Kuznetsov has been loyal to the Capitals since being originally drafted by them in the 1st round, 26th overall of the 2010 NHL draft. So far, the Russian native has put an impressive 80 goals and 185 assists for 265 career points in 340 career games.<\/p>\n<h2>What This Means for the Future.<\/h2>\n<p>Kuznetsov is a key component\u00a0of Washington&#8217;s offensive production so this loss will be felt hard. Not just at scoring chances, but few match\u00a0Kuznetsov with speed and skill. However, there are other skilled players in the Capitals arsenal that can step up, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/e\/ellerla01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lars Eller<\/a><\/strong> or <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/v\/vranaja01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jakub Vrana<\/a><\/strong> to name a few. It&#8217;s going to be a tough series that&#8217;s\u00a0likely to go down to the wire. For the Capitals to succeed, they need every player to play 100% from now.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"fIIIZccWRGBSmvqJ_qtByQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/963874618\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'fIIIZccWRGBSmvqJ_qtByQ',sig:'WxxdU3c4rMSW6IrQ28FXdkofIMGdpyzrNi6yCiUnjzg=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'963874618',caption: true ,tld:'ca',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Capitals announced that top line forward Evgeny Kuznetsov is day-to-day with an upper-body injury. The team may know more tomorrow, but his status remains up in the air for the rest of the series. Barry Trotz had no update on Evgeny Kuznetsov (upper-body) today basically because Caps have been traveling today. Trotz said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2344,"featured_media":30186,"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":[15,34],"tags":[3186,1123,37,38,75],"class_list":["post-30165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-capitals","category-news","tag-2018-stanley-cup-playoffs","tag-evgeny-kuznetsov","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-washington-capitals"],"modified_by":"Ariel Melendez","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30165","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\/2344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}