{"id":46077,"date":"2019-04-25T14:04:55","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T18:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=46077"},"modified":"2019-04-25T14:04:55","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T18:04:55","slug":"zach-hyman-to-undergo-acl-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/04\/25\/zach-hyman-to-undergo-acl-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Maple Leafs Zach Hyman To Undergo ACL Surgery"},"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 on Thursday that forward\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/hymanza01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zach Hyman<\/a><\/strong> will undergo surgery on Monday to repair a torn ACL. He is expected to miss at least six months.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MapleLeafs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@MapleLeafs<\/a> announced today that forward Zach Hyman will undergo surgery Monday, April 29 to repair a torn Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) sustained during the team\u2019s first round playoff series against Boston. He is expected to miss a minimum of six months.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Leafs PR (@LeafsPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeafsPR\/status\/1121417008174600192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 25, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/hymanza01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zach Hyman<\/a> Played Through A Torn ACL<\/h2>\n<p>Hyman suffered the injury during the Leafs first round series vs the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/bruins\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Boston Bruins<\/a>. He did play in all seven games during the series, though. During the postseason, Hyman only recorded one point.<\/p>\n<p>This season, Hyman scored 21 goals and 20 assists for 41 points to go along with 65 minutes in penalties. His possession numbers were 52.5 percent Corsi\u00a0and a relative Corsi of +1.6 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Hyman has spent his entire career as a Leaf. He has 50\u00a0goals and 65 assists for 115\u00a0career points in 251\u00a0career games. Hyman has three goals and six assists for 9 points in 20 career Stanley Cup Playoff games. He was originally drafted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/panthers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Florida Panthers<\/a> in the fifth\u00a0round, 123rd overall in the 2010\u00a0NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<h2>What This Means for the Future<\/h2>\n<p>Over the course of his career, Hyman&#8217;s numbers have gotten better. This season he recorded his first 20-goal season and a career-high 41 points. The Leafs will now look to see if he is able to play at the same level once he returns from ACL surgery.<\/p>\n<p>It comes as a surprise that Hyman was actually able to play through a torn ACL. The injury is known for being excruciatingly painful but Hyman didn&#8217;t show any signs of such a traumatic injury. The Toronto Native spent time on the Leafs top line during the Stanley Cup Playoffs, alongside <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/tavarjo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Tavares<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/marnemi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mitch Marner<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The estimated six-month timeline for Hyman&#8217;s recovery means he will likely miss the first month of next season, at least. With the Leafs failing to make it past the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoff for the second straight year, fans are expecting a few changes before next season. This could include the team parting ways with star head coach <strong>Mike Babcock<\/strong>. General Manager, <strong>Kyle Dubas<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JSportsnet\/status\/1121452698891505664\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told the media<\/a> on Thursday that everyone in the organization is under speculation, including both himself and Babcock. The Leafs may also make plenty of player moves, potentially looking to acquire another winger to fill in for Hyman as he recovers from the surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"1KzJf4EDSNBDS_Y0irKT-Q\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1143828139\" 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:'1KzJf4EDSNBDS_Y0irKT-Q',sig:'mAcq56MZ3KZ64yfiEWJOXPJSO57tzbJjMqp43TIgqFQ=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1143828139',caption: true ,tld:'com',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 on Thursday that forward\u00a0Zach Hyman will undergo surgery on Monday to repair a torn ACL. 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The @MapleLeafs announced today that forward Zach Hyman will undergo surgery Monday, April 29 to repair a torn Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) sustained during the team\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2360,"featured_media":46088,"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":[18,34],"tags":[955,72,714],"class_list":["post-46077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leafs","category-news","tag-nhl-news","tag-toronto-maple-leafs","tag-zach-hyman"],"modified_by":"Gabriel Foley","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46077","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\/2360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}