{"id":36749,"date":"2018-10-11T23:36:58","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T03:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=36749"},"modified":"2018-10-11T23:36:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T03:36:58","slug":"philadelphia-flyers-nolan-patrick-out-upper-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/10\/11\/philadelphia-flyers-nolan-patrick-out-upper-body-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Flyers Nolan Patrick Out 7-10 Days With An Upper-Body Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/flyers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Philadelphia Flyers<\/a> announced today that forward <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/patrino01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nolan Patrick<\/a> is\u00a0expected to be sidelined for 7-10 days with an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">INJURY UPDATE: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Flyers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Flyers<\/a> forward Nolan Patrick will be out with an upper-body injury for the next 7-10 days. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/axaMVO1ODV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/axaMVO1ODV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHLFlyers\/status\/1050476182486028289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 11, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1>Nolan Patrick Out With Upper Body Injury<\/h1>\n<p>It was unclear\u00a0how the injury occurred, but speculated to be from a high stick collision in the first period of Wednesday&#8217;s game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/nhl-teams\/senators\/\" target=\"_self\">Ottawa Senators<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian centre had a tough season to start last year, but finished with 13 goals and 17 assists in 73 games. He also had a 48.9 percent Corsi and a relative Corsi of -0.2. So far Patrick has appeared in every game, but has yet to achieve a point.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of this, it will be a significant blow for the Flyers who have had mixed performances already this season. Patrick was originally drafted by the Flyers in the 1st round, 2nd overall of last years draft.<\/p>\n<h2>What This Means For The Future<\/h2>\n<p>Although there is no further injury information at this time, without Patrick there is a significant gap in forwarding depth. Veteran\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/v\/vanrija01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">James van Riemsdyk<\/a> is also injured, so it is not an optimum season start for the Flyers.<\/p>\n<p>Not a great start for Patrick either, as some critics deem him an <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/07\/31\/nolan-patrick-up-and-down-rookie-year-philadelphia-flyers\/\" target=\"_self\">overvalued top draft pick<\/a>. This will be the most devastating for the young hopeful\u00a0who has already <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2017\/10\/31\/nolan-patrick-gostisbehere-injured-reserve\/\" target=\"_self\">battled with an injury<\/a> in his short NHL career. As a result, Patrick will have to battle and rally again to make a significant\u00a0impact again when recovered.<\/p>\n<p>It is likely that we may see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/w\/wealjo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jordan Weal<\/a> slot into that role in the meantime. He has been a healthy scratch twice, despite the favorite to win the third center spot during camp. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/lehtejo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jori Lehtera<\/a> appeared to get shifts in Patrick&#8217;s spot so that may be another option the Flyers go with. There is a chance <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/laughsc01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scott Laughton<\/a> could move back to center, but he has been impressive on the wing so far this season.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick is likely to miss about four games if he is out the full 10 days. The Flyers will have to manage without him, starting Saturday afternoon against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/nhl-teams\/knights\/\" target=\"_self\">Vegas Golden Knights<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo by Kate Frese (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/KateFresePhoto\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@KateFresePhoto<\/a>), licensed to Last Word on Hockey. The Photographer retains all rights to the photograph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia Flyers announced today that forward Nolan Patrick is\u00a0expected to be sidelined for 7-10 days with an upper-body injury. INJURY UPDATE: #Flyers forward Nolan Patrick will be out with an upper-body injury for the next 7-10 days. https:\/\/t.co\/axaMVO1ODV &mdash; Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) October 11, 2018 Nolan Patrick Out With Upper Body Injury It was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2344,"featured_media":36754,"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":[16,34],"tags":[1557,748,683,126],"class_list":["post-36749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flyers","category-news","tag-jordan-weal","tag-jori-lehtera","tag-nolan-patrick","tag-philadelphia-flyers"],"modified_by":"Ariel Melendez","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36749","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=36749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}