{"id":43838,"date":"2019-03-18T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T16:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=43838"},"modified":"2019-03-18T12:00:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T16:00:17","slug":"toronto-maple-leafs-frederik-gauthier-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/03\/18\/toronto-maple-leafs-frederik-gauthier-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Maple Leafs Frederik Gauthier To Miss At Least Two Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/maple-leafs\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> announced today that centermen <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/gauthfr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frederik Gauthier<\/a><\/strong> will be out at least two games with a foot injury. He will miss the team&#8217;s road trip against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/predators\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nashville Predators<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/sabres\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buffalo Sabres<\/a>. He will then be re-evaluated after that.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Leafs forward Frederik Gauthier (foot) will not travel with the team for the next two games in Nashville and Buffalo and will be re-evaluated on Thursday. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LeafsForever?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#LeafsForever<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Leafs PR (@LeafsPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeafsPR\/status\/1107652801977552896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 18, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h1><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\u00a0Frederik Gauthier Out<\/h1>\n<p>Frederik Gauthier has been a pleasant\u00a0surprise for the Leafs this year. He is known for his size and because of that was drafted as a first rounder in 2013. The Leafs took him 21st overall. From 2015-18 he had played 30 NHL games for the Leafs, however, never seemed to fit. His speed wasn&#8217;t NHL standards and he was never a point scorer.<\/p>\n<p>His career looked to be turning around in the AHL. However, he broke his leg in the Marlies playoffs off of a <a href=\"https:\/\/theleafsnation.com\/2017\/05\/09\/frederik-gauthier-month-to-month-with-injury-dotchin-suspended-three-games\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dirty hit<\/a> by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/dotchja01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jake Dotchin<\/a><\/strong>. Fans were unsure of what Gauthier would become. However, this year he has shown to be a solid 4th line center. He has just 12 points in 62 games, but his role as a grinding shutdown center has been embraced. He has just a 46.52CF%, however, he gives up the least CA\/60 of any Leafs forward.<\/p>\n<p>His line never produces much when he is on but they don&#8217;t give up much either.<\/p>\n<h2>Going Forward<\/h2>\n<p>For the next few games expect deadline acquisition <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/petanni01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nic Petan<\/a> <\/strong>to get playing time. He will likely play along <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mooretr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trevor Moore<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/e\/ennisty01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tyler Ennis<\/a><\/strong>. That line has all kinds of potential to be a solid scoring fourth line. Three guys who are known to have some skill and can still wear down opposing fourth lines.<\/p>\n<p>With the Leafs almost guaranteed to be playing the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/bruins\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Boston Bruins<\/a> in round one, expect them to make sure Frederik Gauthier is 100% before bringing him back. Health for the playoffs will be more important than winning the final few games.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"UtJyOQ2eTThZ4yb_Po9LhA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/1036677518\" 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:'UtJyOQ2eTThZ4yb_Po9LhA',sig:'RkJzdzOPZEaIvygM8m92U6zYsszm_i3-9bOhOqKK3hQ=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1036677518',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 Toronto Maple Leafs announced today that centermen Frederik Gauthier will be out at least two games with a foot injury. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2473,"featured_media":43839,"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":[34,18],"tags":[1222,37,38,955,730,72],"class_list":["post-43838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-leafs","tag-frederik-gauthier","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-news","tag-nic-petan","tag-toronto-maple-leafs"],"modified_by":"Alex Metzger, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43838","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\/2473"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}