{"id":39210,"date":"2018-12-19T15:04:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T20:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=39210"},"modified":"2018-12-19T15:04:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T20:04:23","slug":"chicago-blackhawks-marcus-kruger-placed-on-ir-with-concussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/12\/19\/chicago-blackhawks-marcus-kruger-placed-on-ir-with-concussion\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Blackhawks Marcus Kruger Placed on IR with Concussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/blackhawks\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chicago Blackhawks<\/a> announced that center <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/krugema01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marcus Kruger<\/a><\/strong> is sidelined for indefinitely with a concussion. Kruger is eligible to return to the line-up on December 27th when the Hawks take on the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/wild\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Minnesota Wild<\/a>. This is Kruger&#8217;s third career concussion.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ROSTER NEWS: Forward Luke Johnson has been recalled from Rockford and forward Marcus Kruger (concussion) has been placed on injured reserve. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Blackhawks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Blackhawks<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tXwPz48Alr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/tXwPz48Alr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chicago Blackhawks (@NHLBlackhawks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHLBlackhawks\/status\/1075428664043552768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 19, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1>Marcus Kruger Injured<\/h1>\n<p>Kruger was bloodied up and suffered a concussion after taking an elbow from <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/predators\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nashville Predators<\/a> forward <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/hartmry01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ryan Hartman<\/a><\/strong> late in the second period. He didn&#8217;t return to the game and won&#8217;t travel with the team to Dallas<\/p>\n<p>So far this season, Kruger has scored four goals and one assist for five points to go along with 16 minutes in penalties. His possession numbers were 46.1 % Corsi\u00a0and a relative Corsi of -5.8 %.<\/p>\n<p>Over his 9-year NHL career, Kruger\u00a0has played for the<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/hurricanes\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Carolina Hurricanes<\/a>\u00a0and Chicago Blackhawks. He has 38\u00a0goals and 78 assists for 116\u00a0career points in 479\u00a0career games. He was originally drafted by the Chicago Blackhawks in the fifth\u00a0round, 149th\u00a0overall in the 2009\u00a0NHL draft.<\/p>\n<h2>What This Means for the Future<\/h2>\n<p>This is the second time this season Kruger has gone down with an injury. He missed three games earlier in the year with a leg injury. Kruger is part of the Blackhawks PK unit that has struggled all seasons and currently sits in dead last in that category. In the meantime, the Hawks will get to see more of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/j\/johnslu01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Luke Johnson<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In a corresponding roster move, the Hawks have called up center Luke Johnson from Rockford(AHL). The fifth-round draft pick of the Hawks in &#8217;13 got his first taste of NHL action earlier this year. In 13 games with the Hawks, he recorded one assist along with eight penalty minutes.\u00a0 Johnson has four goals and three assists for seven points in 10 games with Rockford. Johnson will most likely see time on the Hawks fourth line until Kruger is healthy.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"06rpjvtuSNpp3dG5QKlSlg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1074384558\" target=\"_blank\" 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:'06rpjvtuSNpp3dG5QKlSlg',sig:'cqCl3hSaPciyikUGFDWSL6UrDVjY3Lx3iOG9eDm7EFE=',w:'594px',h:'466px',items:'1074384558',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 Chicago Blackhawks announced that center Marcus Kruger is sidelined for indefinitely with a concussion. Kruger is eligible to return to the line-up on December 27th when the Hawks take on the Minnesota Wild. This is Kruger&#8217;s third career concussion. ROSTER NEWS: Forward Luke Johnson has been recalled from Rockford and forward Marcus Kruger (concussion) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2360,"featured_media":39217,"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":[27,34],"tags":[246,1814,955],"class_list":["post-39210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blackhawks","category-news","tag-chicago-blackhawks","tag-marcus-kruger","tag-nhl-news"],"modified_by":"Daniel Brown, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39210","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=39210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}