{"id":461679,"date":"2025-01-29T13:47:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T18:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=461679"},"modified":"2025-01-29T13:47:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T18:47:33","slug":"new-jersey-devils-star-could-be-out-week-to-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/01\/29\/new-jersey-devils-star-could-be-out-week-to-week\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey Devils Star Could Be Out Week-to-Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/01\/18\/nhl-rumours-new-jersey-devils-interested-in-forward\/\" target=\"_self\"> New Jersey Devils<\/a> have <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/story\/_\/id\/43612490\/devils-nico-hischier-week-week-upper-body-injury\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">received some tough news<\/a> on Wednesday. Devils Head Coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/keefesh01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-01-29_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sheldon Keefe<\/a> said forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/hischni01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-01-29_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nico Hischier<\/a> is injured and is &#8220;week-to-week.&#8221; Keefe added that the team will &#8220;see how he feels next week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NEWS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#NEWS<\/a>: Head coach Sheldon Keefe said Nico Hischier will miss tonight&#39;s game, is &quot;week-to-week&quot;, and the team will see how he feels next week.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; New Jersey Devils (@NJDevils) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NJDevils\/status\/1884648761713996197?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 29, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Nico Hischier Injured; Could Be Out Weeks<\/h2>\n<p>Hischier left the January 25 game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/01\/29\/montreal-canadiens-prospects-update\/\" target=\"_self\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a>. The 26-year-old forward received a cross-check from Habs captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/suzukni01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-01-29_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nick Suzuki<\/a> and has not been in the lineup since that game. He was labeled day-to-day at first. However, it seems that the injury is a little more severe than first thought.<\/p>\n<p>The Brig, Switzerland native has only played for the Devils in his eight-year NHL career. Hischier was putting together another strong season with 24 goals and 19 assists for 43 points in 51 games this campaign. He has a Corsi for of 57.4 and a relative Corsi of 7.8. He&#8217;s also willing to put his body on the line with 46 blocks on the season.<\/p>\n<p>Hischier has amassed 160 goals and 236 assists for 396 points in 503 career games. New Jersey drafted him first overall of the 2017 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s also represented his native country on the international level. Hischier has played for Switzerland at many levels during his international career. He played a big hand in the country landing a silver medal at the 2024 IIHF World Championships with six goals and five assists for 11 points.<\/p>\n<h3>What It Means<\/h3>\n<p>The injury<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/01\/24\/new-jersey-devils-goalie-out-with-injury\/\" target=\"_self\"> is another blow<\/a> to the Devils, who are already without goalie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/marksja02.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-01-29_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jacob Markstrom<\/a>. The Devils seem to be in good position in the Metropolitan Division. However, they will have a hard time keeping pace with the Washington Capitals.<\/p>\n<p>Hischier has rounded into one of the team&#8217;s better players and he will be missed in the lineup. He&#8217;s usually involved in all phases of the game and it will be hard for Keefe to replace the veteran forward in the lineup.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main photo by: Marc DesRosiers-Imagn Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Jersey Devils have received some tough news on Wednesday. Devils Head Coach Sheldon Keefe said forward Nico Hischier is injured and is &#8220;week-to-week.&#8221; Keefe added that the team will &#8220;see how he feels next week.&#8221; #NEWS: Head coach Sheldon Keefe said Nico Hischier will miss tonight&#39;s game, is &quot;week-to-week&quot;, and the team will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":453707,"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":[4547,6671,13,34,4548],"tags":[157,5857,922,457],"class_list":["post-461679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hockey","category-injuries","category-devils","category-news","category-nhl","tag-jacob-markstrom","tag-new-jersey-devils-news","tag-nico-hischier","tag-sheldon-keefe"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461679","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\/2352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461680,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461679\/revisions\/461680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}