{"id":4108,"date":"2016-12-12T17:17:14","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T22:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=4108"},"modified":"2016-12-12T17:17:14","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T22:17:14","slug":"edmonton-oilers-darnell-nurse-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2016\/12\/12\/edmonton-oilers-darnell-nurse-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Darnell Nurse Injury: Out Up to 12 Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Edmonton Oilers<\/strong> announced that defenseman <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/n\/nurseda01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Darnell Nurse<\/a> <\/strong>underwent surgery to repair a damaged ligament and bone in his right ankle. The injury will cost Nurse to miss up to 12 weeks. He last played December 1 against the <strong>Winnipeg Jets<\/strong>. \u00a0he 21-year-old hobbled to the bench mid-game and did not return. Nurse has been on the injured reserve since December 3.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Oilers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Oilers<\/a> GM Peter Chiarelli announces Darnell Nurse underwent surgery to repair ankle ligament &amp; bone damage. He will miss up to 12 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Edmonton Oilers (@EdmontonOilers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EdmontonOilers\/status\/808387955056197633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 12, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Darnell Nurse Injury: Out Up to 12 Weeks<\/h2>\n<p>Nurse has 3\u00a0goals and 2\u00a0assists in 25 games this season. Before his injury, he was in the middle of a seven-game point drought. Now that the injury has been diagnosed and treated, it can be expected that Nurse returns to the Oilers lineup early March. This could be just in time for the playoff push.<\/p>\n<p>Nurse, who was the seventh overall pick in the <strong>2013 NHL Entry Draft<\/strong> is seen as one of the Oilers most prized players on the blue\u00a0line. With his absence, their defensive corps will need to step up their play.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought Darnell was one of our best transporters of the puck through the neutral zone, skating it and jumping into the rush and we&#8217;ll miss that a little bit,&#8221; Oilers \u00a0head coach <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mclelto01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Todd McLellan<\/a><\/strong> said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/oilers-darnell-nurse-out-after-ankle-surgery\/c-284637782\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interview with NHL.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nurse has 96 career NHL games under his belt, and in those games, has scored 6\u00a0goals and 9\u00a0assists.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo.<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/622585874\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 78.282828% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/622585874?et=L_q7Kb1eT6hdwm04UxAn-w&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=RfDOYUjBFciCV7G_C3_M4gK7iOQvfPro-q36S6BUCBQ=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"465\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Darnell Nurse injury will force the Edmonton Oilers defenseman to miss 12 weeks after undergoing surgery to repair parts of his right ankle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1187,"featured_media":4121,"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":"1481559720","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"Darnell Nurse out for 12 weeks after undergoing surgery","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,34],"tags":[192,138,37,38],"class_list":["post-4108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oilers","category-news","tag-darnell-nurse","tag-edmonton-oilers","tag-hockey","tag-nhl"],"modified_by":"Nicholas Di Giovanni","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4108","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\/1187"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}