{"id":38374,"date":"2018-11-28T14:42:51","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T19:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=38374"},"modified":"2018-11-28T14:42:51","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T19:42:51","slug":"boston-bruins-kevan-miller-out-five-weeks-with-throat-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/11\/28\/boston-bruins-kevan-miller-out-five-weeks-with-throat-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Bruins Kevan Miller Out Five Weeks With Throat Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/bruins\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Boston Bruins<\/a> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/milleke03.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kevan Miller<\/a> <\/strong>suffered a throat injury that will\u00a0sideline him for at least five weeks. Miller took a puck to the neck in Monday&#8217;s game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/maple-leafs\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a>. A moment that froze fans and players alike as throat injuries can be catastrophic. In Miller&#8217;s case the injury will him healing for the next five weeks.<\/p>\n<h1>Bruins Kevan Miller Injured<\/h1>\n<p>Kevan Miller spent the night in a Toronto hospital Monday after he blocked a shot with his stick and the puck redirected into his throat. Initial X-rays were negative. Miller remained in the hospital for observation to make sure the injury didn&#8217;t swell and affect his breathing. Upon his return to Boston, a CT scan revealed a cartilage injury to his larynx.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kevan Miller suffered a cartilage injury to his larynx and will be out at least 5 weeks. Hits keep on coming for the Bruins<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Joe Haggerty (@HackswithHaggs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HackswithHaggs\/status\/1067815937498365959?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 28, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Miller, who has only appeared in 11 of the Bruins 24 games, has tallied two points. The defenseman missed 13 games already this season due to a hand injury. The injury occurred after he blocked a shot in an October 18th contest against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/oilers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>What this means for the future<\/h2>\n<p>The Bruins are already riddled with injuries to their defensive group. Despite injuries,team has been competitive this season. That said they have gone 5-3-2 in the last 10 games.\u00a0 the team has been With<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/charazd01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zdeno Chara<\/a><\/strong> out three to four weeks with a knee injury, and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mcavoch01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Charlie McAvoy<\/a><\/strong> (concussion) and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/carlobr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brandon Carlo<\/a><\/strong> (upper-body injury) with no clear timeline for a return. Miller&#8217;s injury is the last thing the team needs. Carlo skated in Wednesday&#8217;s practice along with <strong>Jan Kovar<\/strong>, who was playing in Providence on a PTO. The club already recalled <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/donatry01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ryan Donato<\/a><\/strong> from the AHL. They could also call up <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/z\/zborija01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jakub Zboril<\/a><\/strong> or bring<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/kampfst01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steven Kampfer<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0down from the press box.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"HEmhpu3TSwhmiTTNTPtHRg\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1073294730\" 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:'HEmhpu3TSwhmiTTNTPtHRg',sig:'gonB0lroUsom0xDobaJaHK7vcFR10o_pUBGyb3vt-Vk=',w:'594px',h:'494px',items:'1073294730',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>Boston Bruins Kevan Miller suffered a throat injury that will\u00a0sideline him for at least five weeks. Miller took a puck to the neck in Monday&#8217;s game against the Toronto Maple Leafs. A moment that froze fans and players alike as throat injuries can be catastrophic. In Miller&#8217;s case the injury will him healing for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2818,"featured_media":38388,"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":[34,5],"tags":[90,2917],"class_list":["post-38374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-bruins","tag-boston-bruins","tag-kevan-miller"],"modified_by":"Daniel Brown, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38374","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\/2818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}