{"id":40892,"date":"2019-01-31T15:20:39","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T20:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=40892"},"modified":"2019-01-31T15:20:39","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T20:20:39","slug":"st-louis-blues-forward-david-perron-placed-on-ir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/01\/31\/st-louis-blues-forward-david-perron-placed-on-ir\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis Blues Forward David Perron Placed on IR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/blues\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">St.Louis Blues<\/a> have placed winger <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/perroda01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Perron<\/a><\/strong> on IR with an upper-body injury. Perron has been out of action for the Blues since January 17th.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">David Perron has been placed on injured reserve with an upper-body injury. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6lMk1BgYsd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/6lMk1BgYsd<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/stlblues?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#stlblues<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; St. Louis Blues (@StLouisBlues) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StLouisBlues\/status\/1091052363899654144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 31, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/perroda01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Perron<\/a> Placed On IR<\/h1>\n<p>There is no indication on how Perron suffered the injury but he missed the final three games before the All-Star Break. It is unclear if he will play on Saturday vs <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/blue-jackets\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Columbus Blue Jackets<\/a>. The Blues are 2-1 with Perron out of the line-up.<\/p>\n<p>So far this season, Perron has scored 17 goals and 18 assists for 35 points to go along with 36 minutes in penalties. His possession numbers were 50.2 percent Corsi\u00a0and a 0.0 Corsi REL.<\/p>\n<p>Over his the course of his 12 year NHL career Perron has played for the Blues, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/oilers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/penguins\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/ducks\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anaheim\u00a0Ducks<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/knights\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vegas Golden Knights<\/a>. He has 192 goals and 287 assists for 479 career points in 767 career games. He was originally drafted by the Blues 27th overall in the 2007 NHL draft.<\/p>\n<h2>What This Means for the Future<\/h2>\n<p>This is a huge blow to a Blues team that has been struggling all year. Perron is one of their top scorers and a key part of their top line. Perron has had a fantastic year and is on pace for his best year since the 2013-14 season where he scored 28 goals as a member of the Oilers. In his absence\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/schenbr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brayden Schenn<\/a><\/strong> has been taking shifts on the top line for the Blues.<\/p>\n<p>With Perron placed on IR, the Blues have recalled <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/maceama01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mackenzie MacEachern<\/a><\/strong> from San Antonio. MacEachern has played in six games this season for the Blues totalling one goal and one assist in those games.<\/p>\n<p>Some good news for the Blues comes as center <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/thomaro01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert Thomas<\/a><\/strong> who has been out since January 10th has resumed skating with the Blues and could be back in the line-up soon. Thomas was injured on January 10th vs the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/canadiens\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Main photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"H_uQjIluSmtx6NzJnbMjyQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/1095109804\" 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:'H_uQjIluSmtx6NzJnbMjyQ',sig:'DnaE0v-VrmmHuEC7l0tozbtythquMTfK4MGO3y2gfLw=',w:'594px',h:'434px',items:'1095109804',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 St.Louis Blues have placed winger David Perron on IR with an upper-body injury. Perron has been out of action for the Blues since January 17th. David Perron has been placed on injured reserve with an upper-body injury. https:\/\/t.co\/6lMk1BgYsd #stlblues &mdash; St. Louis Blues (@StLouisBlues) January 31, 2019 David Perron Placed On IR There is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2360,"featured_media":40896,"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":[32,34],"tags":[1545,955,39],"class_list":["post-40892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blues","category-news","tag-david-perron","tag-nhl-news","tag-st-louis-blues"],"modified_by":"Oscar Elieff","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40892","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=40892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}