{"id":438679,"date":"2024-03-11T13:35:50","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T17:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=438679"},"modified":"2024-03-12T04:38:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T08:38:20","slug":"ottawa-senators-centre-had-surgery-repair-shoulder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2024\/03\/11\/ottawa-senators-centre-had-surgery-repair-shoulder\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Senators Centre Had Surgery to Repair Shoulder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again it is the news that <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/senators\/\" target=\"_self\">Ottawa Senators<\/a> fans dread, it is 2024, and Josh Norris has a shoulder injury, and had to have surgery. Since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/n\/norrijo01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-03-11_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joshua Norris<\/a> left the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/predators\/\" target=\"_self\">Nashville Predators<\/a> game on February 27th, <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawasun.com\/sports\/hockey\/nhl\/ottawa-senators\/senators-centre-josh-norris-done-for-the-season-after-third-shoulder-surgery\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">it was reported that he had searched for a second opinion<\/a> on what to do from a US-based shoulder specialist. He ended up opting for surgery, and as a result, Head Coach Jacques Martin made the announcement he has been placed on retroactive long-term injured reserve back to March 1, 2024. Furthermore, confirmed that he will miss the remainder of 2023-24. In a bit of good news, it is expected that Norris will be ready to go for training camp come September.<\/p>\n<h2>Josh Norris Should be Ready for 2024 Training Camp Following Surgery on Shoulder Injury<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sens F Josh Norris will miss the remainder of the season after having surgery on his injured shoulder. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3irIAbOfgI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/3irIAbOfgI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TSN (@TSN_Sports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSN_Sports\/status\/1767222787154821263?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 11, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>So far in 2023-24 before the injury, Josh Norris has played decently. His 16 goals and 30 points in 50 games played were a testament to that fact. However, he did seem off slightly. He just didn&#8217;t seem like the same guy who put up 35 goals in 66 games back in 2021-22. Much less worthy of the $7.95 M he earns annually until the summer of 2030. Therefore, perhaps it will be beneficial in the long run, and Norris will come back at 100%.<\/p>\n<h3>What Does This All Mean for the Senators<\/h3>\n<p>Being without their clear number two centre hurt the Senators in 2022-23. Interestingly enough, the same could be said for this year, missing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/pintosh01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-03-11_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shane Pinto<\/a> as their number three centre for the first half of the season. Especially in the fact that Norris just wasn&#8217;t playing as hard as you need a centreman to play. But the NHL is a business, and the Senators need to learn how to overcome adversity.<\/p>\n<p>They have guys to step up, and they need to do that and figure out how to win games. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/greigri01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-03-11_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ridly Greig<\/a> has 21 points in 52 games, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/kastema01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-03-11_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mark Kastelic<\/a> has four points in 52 games and Pinto 18 points in 21 games. Together these guys hold the centre position on lock, after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/stuetti02.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-03-11_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tim Stutzle<\/a>. They need to use the remainder of the season to figure out how to pick up the slack. Otherwise, it will lead to a complicated offseason for General Manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/staiost01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-03-11_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steve Staios<\/a> and how to fill the roles.<\/p>\n<p>Main photo: Marc DesRosiers-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again it is the news that Ottawa Senators fans dread, it is 2024, and Josh Norris has a shoulder injury, and had to have surgery. Since Joshua Norris left the Nashville Predators game on February 27th, it was reported that he had searched for a second opinion on what to do from a US-based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4222,"featured_media":437976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_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":[8,4547,6671],"tags":[1576,1605,70,4142],"class_list":["post-438679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-senators","category-hockey","category-injuries","tag-injury","tag-josh-norris","tag-ottawa-senators","tag-shane-pinto"],"modified_by":"Levi Pike, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438679","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\/4222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}