{"id":44396,"date":"2019-03-31T09:15:08","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T13:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=44396"},"modified":"2019-03-31T14:50:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T18:50:23","slug":"tampa-bay-lightning-victor-hedman-out-with-upper-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/03\/31\/tampa-bay-lightning-victor-hedman-out-with-upper-body-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Lightning Victor Hedman Out With Upper-Body Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/lightning\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> announced that top defensemen<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/hedmavi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Victor Hedman<\/a> <\/strong>has sustained an upper-body injury. A timescale for his return has yet to be disclosed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TBLightning?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#TBLightning<\/a> defenseman Victor Hedman has sustained an upper-body injury and will not return to tonight\u2019s game. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WSHvsTBL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#WSHvsTBL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tampa Bay Lightning (@TBLightning) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TBLightning\/status\/1112158060846477312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 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\/h\/hedmavi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Victor Hedman<\/a> Injured<\/h1>\n<p>Although unclear, Hedman did not return after the first period against defending\u00a0champions the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/capitals\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washington Capitals.\u00a0<\/a>He sustained the injury after a suspected hit from Capitals&#8217;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/hagelca01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Carl Hagelin<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So far this season,\u00a0Hedman is the team&#8217;s highest scoring defensemen. He has collected 12 goals and 42 assists for 54 points while being assessed 44 minutes in penalties. His possession numbers were 51.9 percent Corsi\u00a0and a relative Corsi of 0.9.<\/p>\n<p>Over his decade-long NHL career,\u00a0the 28-year-old has played loyally for the Lightning. He has achieved 94 goals and 324 assists for 418 career points in 695 career games. He was originally drafted by the Florida based team in the 1st round, 2nd overall in the 2009 NHL draft.<\/p>\n<h2>What This Means for the Future<\/h2>\n<p>It is difficult to analyze without an official timescale, but he currently is listed as day-to-day. If it becomes a longer-term injury, it could be detrimental\u00a0for the Lightning&#8217;s playoff run. Last season&#8217;s Norris Trophy winner has had <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/2018\/01\/12\/hedman-is-out-for-3-6-weeks\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">previous injury concerns<\/a>, but it is hoped to be only cautionary at this point.<\/p>\n<p>Although the President Trophy winners have had another epic hundred plus point regular season, they fell short in 2017-18\u00a0Playoffs. Hedman is not only a key component defensively\u00a0and offensively for the Lightning but a valuable defensive\u00a0veteran. This injury, along with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/cernaer01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Erik Cernak<\/strong><\/a> leaving during the same game, could potentially leave Tampa Bay in search of defensive depth.<\/p>\n<p>For now, it seems likely that Hedman will miss Monday night&#8217;s game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/nhl-teams\/senators\/\" target=\"_self\">Ottawa Senators<\/a> as well as Tuesday&#8217;s game against the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/canadiens\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a>. 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A timescale for his return has yet to be disclosed. #TBLightning defenseman Victor Hedman has sustained an upper-body injury and will not return to tonight\u2019s game. #WSHvsTBL &mdash; Tampa Bay Lightning (@TBLightning) March 31, 2019 Victor Hedman Injured Although unclear, Hedman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2344,"featured_media":44437,"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":[9,34],"tags":[4001,152,42,1124,75],"class_list":["post-44396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lightning","category-news","tag-eric-cernak","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-tampa-bay-lightning","tag-victor-hedman","tag-washington-capitals"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44396","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=44396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}