{"id":37678,"date":"2018-11-07T01:28:36","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T06:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=37678"},"modified":"2018-11-07T01:28:36","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T06:28:36","slug":"vegas-golden-knights-erik-haula-stretchered-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/11\/07\/vegas-golden-knights-erik-haula-stretchered-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegas Golden Knight&#8217;s Erik Haula Stretchered Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"adn ads\">\n<div class=\"gs\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div id=\":o0\" class=\"ii gt\">\n<div id=\":nz\" class=\"a3s aXjCH \" role=\"gridcell\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/knights\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vegas Golden Knights<\/a> have announced that winger <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/haulaer01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Erik Haula<\/a><\/strong> is sidelined indefinitely with an apparent lower-body injury after leaving tonight&#8217;s game on a stretcher.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Difficult moment as Erik Haula was attended to after a collision at center ice. He was helped off by team medical personnel<\/p>\n<p>We can speak for all Golden Knights fans in hoping he is OK<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Vegas Golden Knights (@GoldenKnights) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GoldenKnights\/status\/1059993507350294528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 7, 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\/h\/haulaer01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Erik Haula<\/a> Injured<\/h1>\n<p>Haula was injured 5 minutes into the Third Period in Vegas 3-1 loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/maple-leafs\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a>. He was knocked into the boards by <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/maple-leafs\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> Forward\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/marlepa01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Patrick Marleau<\/a><\/strong>. The hit did not appear to be particularly hard but caused Haula to lose his balance and tumble to the ice in a heap. He held his\u00a0injured knee before the trainers and medical staff attended to his needs. Haula continued holding his injured knee and gesturing to his leg after the hit and while being attended to. He ended up being stretchered off the ice.<\/p>\n<p>So far this season,\u00a0Haula has scored two goals and five assists for seven\u00a0points to go along with 10 minutes in penalties. His possession numbers were 63.1 % Corsi\u00a0and a relative Corsi of 49.8 %.<\/p>\n<p>Over his six-year NHL career, Haula has played for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/wild\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Minnesota Wild<\/a> and Vegas Golden Knights. He has 73 goals and 78 assists for 151 career points in 356 career games. He was originally drafted by the Minnesota\u00a0Wild in the seventh round, 182nd overall in the 2009 NHL draft.<\/p>\n<h2>Trading Places<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\">The Golden Knights had just gotten forward <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/pacioma01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Max Pacioretty<\/a> back from a lower-body injury and now lose another key forward. Haula was injured 5 minutes into the Third Period in Vegas 3-1 loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs. He was hit into the boards by Toronto&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/marlepa01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Patrick Marleau<\/a>. After the hit, Haula was grabbing his knee and leg after the hit and ended up being stretchered off the ice. The bad news is that this is likely\u00a0going to be a long-term injury for Haula. The Knight&#8217;s will look to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/e\/eakinco01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cody Eakin<\/a><\/strong> to take over the centermen duties on the second line.<\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Main Photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"mDWYDaUeQbdeVrt7d-iwyA\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1059943934\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\" 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:'mDWYDaUeQbdeVrt7d-iwyA',sig:'nGI-XSF0LSDZZTPJMJMPQ0-n8zx59poWcxph0N_7wGA=',w:'594px',h:'429px',items:'1059943934',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vegas Golden Knights have announced that winger Erik Haula is sidelined indefinitely with an apparent lower-body injury after leaving tonight&#8217;s game on a stretcher. Difficult moment as Erik Haula was attended to after a collision at center ice. He was helped off by team medical personnel We can speak for all Golden Knights fans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2360,"featured_media":37695,"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":[34,807],"tags":[2764,955,961],"class_list":["post-37678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-vegas-golden-knights","tag-erik-haula","tag-nhl-news","tag-vegas-golden-knights"],"modified_by":"Daniel Brown, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37678","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=37678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}