{"id":36241,"date":"2018-09-26T15:26:32","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T19:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=36241"},"modified":"2018-09-26T15:26:32","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T19:26:32","slug":"columbus-blue-jackets-seth-jones-to-miss-signifcant-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/09\/26\/columbus-blue-jackets-seth-jones-to-miss-signifcant-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbus Blue Jackets Seth Jones To Miss Signifcant Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Columbus Blue Jackets<\/a> have announced\u00a0that defencemen Seth Jones<\/a><\/strong> will be out for four-to-six weeks with a second-degree MCL sprain in his left knee.<\/p>\n

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#CBJ<\/a> say D Seth Jones<\/a> is out 4-6 weeks with a strained knee ligament.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Aaron Portzline (@Aportzline) September 26, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Seth Jones<\/a>\u00a0Out 4-6 Weeks with Sprained MCL<\/h1>\n

Jones was injured during the second period of Tuesday’s pre-season game against the\u00a0Buffalo Sabres<\/a> and didn’t return.<\/p>\n

During the course of his five-year NHL career Jones has played for the Nashville Predators<\/a> and Columbus Blue Jackets. He has scored 45 goals and 137 assists for 182 career points in 393 career NHL games. In 17 career Stanley Cup Playoff games Jones has a goal and 10 assists for 11 points. Jones was originally drafted fourth overall by the Predators in the 2013 NHL Entry Draft.<\/p>\n

Last season Jones had a career year. He scored 16 goals and 41 assists for 57 points in 78 games. He also added 30 minutes in penalties. Jones was also named to the All-Star game for the first time in his career last season. He had a goal and four assists for five points in six Stanley Cup Playoff Games. His possession\u00a0numbers were 54.1 percent Corsi-For with a relative Corsi of +4.4 percent. Jones was named to the NHL’s second All-Star Team and finished fourth in Norris Trophy voting.<\/p>\n

What This Means for the Future<\/h1>\n

This is a huge blow for the Jackets as Jones is their number one defencemen coming into this season. Jones is coming off a career year including being tied with Artemi\u00a0Panarin<\/strong><\/a> for power-play goals (9), leading the team in powerplay points with 24 and in shots (249).<\/p>\n

Zach Werenski<\/a><\/strong> who is coming back from shoulder surgery in the off-season is expected to be back for opening night for the Blue Jackets. Expect David Savard<\/a><\/strong> to see time on the top pairing during Jones absence.<\/p>\n

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Main Photo:\u00a0COLUMBUS, OH – JANUARY 21: Seth Jones #3 of the Columbus Blue Jackets controls the puck during the game against the Calgary Flames on January 21, 2016 at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio. (Photo by Kirk Irwin\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Columbus Blue Jackets have announced\u00a0that defencemen Seth Jones will be out for four-to-six weeks with a second-degree MCL sprain in his left knee. #CBJ say D Seth Jones is out 4-6 weeks with a strained knee ligament. \u2014 Aaron Portzline (@Aportzline) September 26, 2018 Seth Jones\u00a0Out 4-6 Weeks with Sprained MCL Jones was injured […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2360,"featured_media":5115,"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":[11,34],"tags":[111,955,351],"class_list":["post-36241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bluejackets","category-news","tag-columbus-blue-jackets","tag-nhl-news","tag-seth-jones"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36241","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\/2360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}