{"id":3916,"date":"2016-12-05T16:58:22","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T21:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=3916"},"modified":"2016-12-05T16:58:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T21:58:22","slug":"alex-galchenyuk-out-indefinitely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2016\/12\/05\/alex-galchenyuk-out-indefinitely\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Galchenyuk Out Indefinitely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Montreal Canadiens<\/strong> have announced on twitter that star first line center\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/galchal01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alex Galchenyuk<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>will be out indefinitely with a lower body injury.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Medical update: Alex Galchenyuk underwent testing in St. Louis on Monday and will be out indefinitely. DETAILS: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/O2QZOw6tyt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/O2QZOw6tyt<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/e2g74Gukkj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/e2g74Gukkj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Canadiens Montr\u00e9al (@CanadiensMTL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CanadiensMTL\/status\/805875192958435328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 5, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Alex Galchenyuk Out Indefinitely<\/h2>\n<p>Galchenyuk suffered the injury Sunday, in a 5-3 shootout win against the\u00a0<strong>Los Angeles Kings<\/strong>. He will receive further testing by team doctors upon returning to Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>This injury comes a blow to the Canadiens who are in the middle of a great start to the season as well as to Galchenyuk himself. Galchunyuk was in the midst of a star making season, having recorded 23 points in 25 game so far leading the Canadiens and putting him in 11th in the NHL.<\/p>\n<p>Galchenyuk had been playing\u00a0between <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/byronpa01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paul Byron<\/a><\/strong> and <strong>Alex Radulov, <\/strong>though\u00a0was between <strong><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> <\/strong>and Radulov on Sunday. He had been posting stellar adjusted possession numbers between 55.55 and 56.22 CF%. And this has mostly been done without <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/2016\/12\/02\/alex-galchenyuk-ice-time-center-increase\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">large amounts of ice time<\/a>\u00a0and on a team that overall has yet to show elite possession metrics.<\/p>\n<h2>One of many<\/h2>\n<p>Galchenyuk&#8217;s injury is just the next in a growing list of big name players who have missed time this season. A list including names like <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=hallta02,hallta01&amp;search=Taylor+Hall&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Taylor Hall<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/stamkst01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steven Stamkos<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/gaudrjo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Johnny Gaudreau<\/a><\/strong>, <strong>Jach Eichel<\/strong> and many more. The Canadiens will hope that Galchenyuk&#8217;s injury will be more like Gaudreau who only missed 10 games than Stamkos who will miss the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/2016\/11\/17\/tampa-bay-lightning-steven-stamkos-undergo-surgery-4-6-months\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">next 4 months<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With both <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/plekato01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tomas Plekanec<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/deshada01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Desharnais<\/a><\/strong> struggling this season, the injury leaves the Canadiens quite weak down the middle of the ice. If the injury is long term, the Canadiens may be forced into addressing the issue with a trade. They could also\u00a0try Radulov at centre, a position he played at times in the KHL.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:\u00a0MONTREAL, QC &#8211; NOVEMBER 08: Alex Galchenyuk #27 of the Montreal Canadiens skates during the NHL game against the Boston Bruins at the Bell Centre on November 8, 2016 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The Montreal Canadiens defeated the Boston Bruins 3-2. (Photo by Minas Panagiotakis\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Montreal Canadiens have announced on twitter that star first line center\u00a0Alex Galchenyuk\u00a0will be out indefinitely with a lower body injury. Medical update: Alex Galchenyuk underwent testing in St. Louis on Monday and will be out indefinitely. DETAILS: https:\/\/t.co\/O2QZOw6tyt pic.twitter.com\/e2g74Gukkj &mdash; Canadiens Montr\u00e9al (@CanadiensMTL) December 5, 2016 Alex Galchenyuk Out Indefinitely Galchenyuk suffered the injury [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1729,"featured_media":3847,"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":[265,37,152],"class_list":["post-3916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canadiens","category-news","tag-alex-galchenyuk","tag-hockey","tag-montreal-canadiens"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3916","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\/1729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}