{"id":37469,"date":"2018-10-31T12:05:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T16:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=37469"},"modified":"2020-12-26T16:38:13","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T21:38:13","slug":"detroit-red-wings-thomas-vanek-out-at-least-two-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/10\/31\/detroit-red-wings-thomas-vanek-out-at-least-two-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Red Wings Thomas Vanek Out at Least Two Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/red-wings\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Detroit Red Wings<\/a> have announced that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/v\/vanekth01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thomas Vanek<\/a><\/strong> is sidelined for at least two weeks with a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Detroit <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RedWings?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#RedWings<\/a> will need 1-2 forwards after injury to Thomas Vanek <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iadjz4489q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/iadjz4489q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Freep Sports (@freepsports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/freepsports\/status\/1057473755285381121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 31, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/v\/vanekth01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thomas Vanek<\/a> Injured<\/h1>\n<p>Vanek appeared to hurt his knee in the first period of Tuesday&#8217;s game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/blue-jackets\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Columbus Blue Jackets<\/a>. The Vienna, Austria native set up a goal before exiting the game.<\/p>\n<p>So far this season, he scored two goals and three assists for five points in 12 games. He also added six penalty minutes. His possession numbers were 44.5 percent Corsi\u00a0and a relative Corsi of -5.5.<\/p>\n<p>Vanek has played for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/sabres\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buffalo Sabres<\/a>, Detroit Red Wings, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/islanders\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Islanders<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/canadiens\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Montreal Canadiens<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/wild\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Minnesota Wild<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/canucks\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vancouver Canucks<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/panthers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Florida Panthers<\/a> and Columbus Blue Jackets in his 14-year NHL career. He has put up 359 goals and 399 assists for 758 career points in <i>977<\/i> career games. The Buffalo Sabres originally drafted Vanek in the first round, fifth overall of the 2003 draft.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/sports\/nhl\/red-wings\/2018\/10\/30\/detroit-red-wings-thomas-vanek\/1828757002\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">may have to call up another forward<\/a> as<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/a\/athanan01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andreas Athanasiou<\/a><\/strong> missed Tuesday&#8217;s game with an undisclosed ailment. He could return, but he will be a game-day decision. The Red Wings are likely to call up forward <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/e\/ehnch01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Christoffer Ehn<\/a> <\/strong>from Grand Rapids. There&#8217;s no word on who the second forward would be, but some would like to see <strong>Filip Zadina<\/strong> get a shot.<\/p>\n<h2>What This Means for the Future<\/h2>\n<p>Injuries have been a really big problem for the Red Wings in the early part of the season. The team&#8217;s defence is just now starting to recover after missing <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=greenmi03,greenmi02&amp;search=Mike+Green&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mike Green<\/a> <\/strong>for the first part of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Vanek has totaled four points in his last five games as Detroit has won two straight games. The veteran forward was moved onto the power-play and that&#8217;s injected life into the offence. He&#8217;s been making plenty of plays on special teams in the last few games. It&#8217;s a move that&#8217;s benefited Jeff Blashill&#8217;s team.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/01\/vanek-trade-bait-lwoh.jpg\" alt=\"\">DETROIT, MI &#8211; JANUARY 16: Thomas Vanek #62 of the Detroit Red Wings skates against the Montreal Canadiens at Joe Louis Arena on January 16, 2017 in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Gregory Shamus\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Detroit Red Wings have announced that Thomas Vanek is sidelined for at least two weeks with a lower-body injury. Detroit #RedWings will need 1-2 forwards after injury to Thomas Vanek https:\/\/t.co\/iadjz4489q &mdash; Freep Sports (@freepsports) October 31, 2018 Thomas Vanek Injured Vanek appeared to hurt his knee in the first period of Tuesday&#8217;s game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":5633,"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":[4,34],"tags":[678,3782,95,100,5738,343,755,2569,955,321],"class_list":["post-37469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-redwings","category-news","tag-andreas-athanasiou","tag-christoffer-ehn","tag-detroit-red-wings","tag-grand-rapids-griffins","tag-hockey-news","tag-jeff-blashill","tag-mike-green","tag-news","tag-nhl-news","tag-thomas-vanek"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37469","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=37469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}