{"id":43299,"date":"2019-03-10T11:47:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T15:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=43299"},"modified":"2020-12-26T16:34:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T21:34:11","slug":"new-york-rangers-rookie-libor-hajek-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/03\/10\/new-york-rangers-rookie-libor-hajek-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Rangers Rookie Libor Hajek Injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/rangers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Rangers<\/a> have announced that defencemen\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/hajekli01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Libor Hajek<\/a> <\/strong>sustained a separated\u00a0shoulder during Saturday night&#8217;s game. More details will come when information is known.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hajek has a separated shoulder. No timetable.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rick Carpiniello (@RickCarpiniello) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RickCarpiniello\/status\/1104578964184535040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 10, 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\/h\/hajekli01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Libor Hajek<\/a> Injured<\/h1>\n<p>It was a bittersweet\u00a0moment for the Czech rookie, who scored his first NHL goal during the third period against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/devils\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Jersey Devils<\/a>. However, he left a few minutes after taking a hit into the boards from behind and did not return. The Rangers broke a six-game\u00a0winless drought\u00a0with a\u00a04-2 win.<\/p>\n<p>Hajek&#8217;s rookie season may have stalled before it even begun thanks to the injury.<\/p>\n<p>So far this season,\u00a0Hajek has played four games for the Rangers and accumulated\u00a0one goal and six minutes in penalties. His possession numbers were 49.1 percent Corsi\u00a0and a relative Corsi of 7.8.<\/p>\n<p>He was originally drafted by the<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/lightning\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> in the second round, 37th overall in the 2016 NHL Draft. Hajeck was brought to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/02\/26\/ryan-mcdonagh-trade\/\" target=\"_self\">New York as<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/02\/26\/ryan-mcdonagh-trade\/\" target=\"_self\">part of the<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mcdonry01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Ryan McDonagh<\/strong><\/a> trade. The 20-year-old is in his first season as a pro and is untested. He&#8217;s showed some potential with the <strong>Hartford Wolfpack<\/strong> when he was called up.<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/07\/28\/new-york-rangers-prospects\/\" target=\"_self\"> Readers can view the full prospect report by Ben Kerr here.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>What This Means for the Future<\/h2>\n<p>The Rangers are in the midst of a difficult rebuild period. Aided with the loss of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/z\/zuccama01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mats Zuccarello<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/hayeske01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kevin Hayes<\/a> <\/strong>during the trade deadline, the Rangers have struggled to play a consistent 60 minutes. Injury concerns, particularly defensively, puts added pressure on an already fairly inexperienced lineup.<\/p>\n<p>Although fully expected, the Rangers will not be a contender for the playoffs this year, or for the next few seasons. But will start looking to the future and developing younger players.<\/p>\n<p>The Rangers next face the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/oilers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a> on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/03\/libor-hajek-of-the-new-york-rangers-skates-in-his-first-nhl-game-the-picture-id1133084241.jpg\" alt=\"\">NEW YORK, NEW YORK &#8211; MARCH 01: Libor Hajek #43 of the New York Rangers skates in his first NHL game against the Montreal Canadiens at Madison Square Garden on March 01, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Bruce Bennett\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Rangers have announced that defencemen\u00a0Libor Hajek sustained a separated\u00a0shoulder during Saturday night&#8217;s game. More details will come when information is known. Hajek has a separated shoulder. No timetable. &mdash; Rick Carpiniello (@RickCarpiniello) March 10, 2019 Libor Hajek Injured It was a bittersweet\u00a0moment for the Czech rookie, who scored his first NHL goal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2344,"featured_media":43333,"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":[14,34],"tags":[5738,1179,2752,1351,151,48,2569,955,1131,42],"class_list":["post-43299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rangers","category-news","tag-hockey-news","tag-kevin-hayes","tag-libor-hajek","tag-mats-zuccarello","tag-new-jersey-devils","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-news","tag-nhl-news","tag-ryan-mcdonagh","tag-tampa-bay-lightning"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43299","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\/2344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}