{"id":39806,"date":"2019-01-05T17:29:26","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T22:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=39806"},"modified":"2019-01-05T17:29:26","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T22:29:26","slug":"san-jose-sharks-justin-braun-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/01\/05\/san-jose-sharks-justin-braun-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks Justin Braun Placed on Injured Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/sharks\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Jose Sharks<\/a> have announced that they have placed defenceman <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/braunju01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Justin Braun<\/a><\/strong> on the Injured Reserve with a lower-body injury. In a corresponding move, the Sharks recalled <strong>Jacob Middleton<\/strong> from their AHL affiliate San Jose Barracuda.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SJSharks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#SJSharks<\/a> recall defenseman Jacob Middleton from the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sjbarracuda?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@sjbarracuda<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>In a related move, Justin Braun has been placed on Injured Reserve.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iCueFlfw6V\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/iCueFlfw6V<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; San Jose Sharks (@SanJoseSharks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SanJoseSharks\/status\/1081608015067922434?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 5, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1>Sharks Place Justin Braun on Injured Reserve<\/h1>\n<p>Braun sustained the injury during Wednesday&#8217;s 5-4 win over the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/avalanche\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Colorado Avalanche<\/a>. Braun fell awkwardly on his right knee after battling with Avalanche forward <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/rantami01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mikko Rantanen<\/a><\/strong> for a loose puck. He will miss at least a week due to the injury but could be out longer depending on the severity of the injury.<\/p>\n<p>So far this season, Braun has scored one goal and added eight assists in 42 games.<\/p>\n<p>Braun has played his entire NHL career with the Sharks, registering 23 goals and adding 124 assists for 147 points in 571 games.<\/p>\n<p>Braun was originally drafted by the Sharks in the seventh round of the 2007 NHL Entry Draft.<\/p>\n<h2>What This Means for the Future<\/h2>\n<p>With Braun out, Jacob Middleton was recalled and is expected to appear in his first NHL game on Saturday night. He&#8217;s expected to be paired with all-star defenceman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/burnsbr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Brent Burns<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Middleton has scored two goals and added 10 assists in 26 games for the Barracuda this season. He was originally drafted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/kings\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Los Angeles Kings<\/a> in the seventh round of the 2014 NHL Entry Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Middleton signed a three-year entry-level contract with the Sharks on September 7th of 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Middleton was named to the AHL All-Star team making him one of three players to represent San Jose in the game. The AHL may now need to find a replacement for Middleton, depending on the severity of Braun&#8217;s injury.<\/p>\n<p>San Jose&#8217;s next game will be at home against the Eastern Conference leading <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/lightning\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Main photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"pQZBCq3hSe9vdoO2S0mL_Q\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/1074486490\" 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:'pQZBCq3hSe9vdoO2S0mL_Q',sig:'iVr80I2dbTYNBVk3ISZksgUdEeqPvc2VQqPEhxtlI-4=',w:'594px',h:'397px',items:'1074486490',caption: true ,tld:'ca',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Jose Sharks have announced that they have placed defenceman Justin Braun on the Injured Reserve with a lower-body injury. In a corresponding move, the Sharks recalled Jacob Middleton from their AHL affiliate San Jose Barracuda. #SJSharks recall defenseman Jacob Middleton from the @sjbarracuda. In a related move, Justin Braun has been placed on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2506,"featured_media":39811,"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":[25,34],"tags":[333,37,3869,1561,301,38,548,117],"class_list":["post-39806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sharks","category-news","tag-brent-burns","tag-hockey","tag-jacob-middleton","tag-justin-braun","tag-mikko-rantanen","tag-nhl","tag-san-jose-barracuda","tag-san-jose-sharks"],"modified_by":"Oscar Elieff","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39806","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\/2506"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}