{"id":38150,"date":"2018-11-20T14:01:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T19:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=38150"},"modified":"2018-11-20T14:01:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T19:01:55","slug":"montreal-canadiens-noah-juulsen-out-indefinitly-with-facial-fracutres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/11\/20\/montreal-canadiens-noah-juulsen-out-indefinitly-with-facial-fracutres\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Canadiens Noah Juulsen Out Indefinitly With Facial Fracutres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/canadiens\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a> announced that defensemen <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/j\/juulsno01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Noah Juulsen<\/a><\/strong> is sidelined for indefinitely with facial fractures.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Defenseman Noah Juulsen is sidelined indefinitely with a facial fracture.<\/p>\n<p>MEDICAL UPDATE \u27a1\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qjHYNATVVI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/qjHYNATVVI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GoHabsGo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#GoHabsGo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Canadiens Montr\u00e9al (@CanadiensMTL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CanadiensMTL\/status\/1064936801532407808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 20, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/j\/juulsno01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Noah Juulsen<\/a> Injured<\/h1>\n<p>Juulsen took two pucks to the face in the first period of Monday&#8217;s overtime loss vs the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/capitals\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washington Capitals<\/a>. Juulsen was taken to the hospital after taking the second of two shots to the face.<\/p>\n<p>So far this season, Juulsen has scored one goal and four assists for five points to go along with six minutes in penalties. His possession numbers were 47.7 percent Corsi\u00a0and a relative Corsi of -4.9 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Over his two-year NHL career, Juulsen\u00a0has played for the Montreal Canadiens. He has two\u00a0goals and six assists for eight\u00a0career points in 40\u00a0career games. He was originally drafted by the Montreal Canadiens 26th\u00a0overall in the\u00a02015\u00a0NHL draft.<\/p>\n<h2>What This Means for the Future<\/h2>\n<p>The Injury to Juulsen comes with the news that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/w\/webersh01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shea Weber<\/a><\/strong> is about two weeks from rejoining the Habs. Juulsen is one of Montreal&#8217;s young blue-liners who is finally getting an opportunities to play with the NHL squad. He has seen time both on the second and third pairings this season. In 17 games this season, Juulsen has shown his physicality and is leading the Habs with 54 hits. The Habs won&#8217;t have a tough time filling Juulsen&#8217;s role as the Habs have been rotating through defensemen this year to get everyone some playing time. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/petryje01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jeff Petry<\/a><\/strong> is the only defensemen who played in all 21 games for the Habs this season.\u00a0 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/a\/alzneka01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Karl Alzner<\/a><\/strong> will likely be slotted into the line-up until Weber returns. Once Juulsen is healthy the question will be if he fits into the line-up.<\/p>\n<p>The Habs have also placed forward <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/scherni01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nikita Scherbak<\/a><\/strong> on IR with a lower-body injury. Sherbak hasn&#8217;t played a game with the Habs this season and just finished a conditioning stint in Laval before being placed on IR again.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo: <\/p>\n<p><a id=\"uNmU6-HHSVhe10XeCDyA8Q\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1049415432\" 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:'uNmU6-HHSVhe10XeCDyA8Q',sig:'IooSIAK7AFO6xjuvpOg4QO0EvS5JS5JkPBJb-yHEU-s=',w:'594px',h:'440px',items:'1049415432',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 Montreal Canadiens announced that defensemen Noah Juulsen is sidelined for indefinitely with facial fractures. Defenseman Noah Juulsen is sidelined indefinitely with a facial fracture. MEDICAL UPDATE \u27a1\ufe0f https:\/\/t.co\/qjHYNATVVI#GoHabsGo &mdash; Canadiens Montr\u00e9al (@CanadiensMTL) November 20, 2018 Noah Juulsen Injured Juulsen took two pucks to the face in the first period of Monday&#8217;s overtime loss vs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2360,"featured_media":38160,"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":[7,34],"tags":[152,955,1012],"class_list":["post-38150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canadiens","category-news","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-nhl-news","tag-noah-juulsen"],"modified_by":"Daniel Brown, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38150","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=38150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}