{"id":46338,"date":"2019-04-30T14:29:30","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T18:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=46338"},"modified":"2020-12-26T16:33:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T21:33:45","slug":"matt-calvert-will-miss-game-3-for-colorado-avalanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/04\/30\/matt-calvert-will-miss-game-3-for-colorado-avalanche\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Calvert Will Miss Game 3 for Colorado Avalache"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/avalanche\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Colorado Avalanche<\/a> have announced that forward <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/calvema01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matt Calvert<\/a><\/strong> is out for Game 3 with an upper-body injury. Calvert&#8217;s status was announced <a href=\"https:\/\/denver.cbslocal.com\/2019\/04\/30\/avalanche-matt-calvert-sharks\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">after the morning skate on Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">That big hit on Matt Calvert late in Game 2 will force the Avalanche forward to miss Game 3. Here&#39;s the story: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Er72biEdVp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/Er72biEdVp<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/denverpost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@denverpost<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Avs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Avs<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SJSharks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#SJSharks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mike Chambers (@MikeChambers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeChambers\/status\/1123283657295163392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 30, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Matt Calvert Injured<\/h2>\n<p>The Brandon, Manitoba native was hurt in Game 2 after taking a big hit from <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/sharks\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Jose Sharks<\/a> defenceman <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/burnsbr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brent Burns<\/a><\/strong>. Calvert was injured in the final minutes of the game after making a pass to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mackina01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nathan MacKinnon<\/a><\/strong>. The 29-year-old eventually got an assist on the game-clinching goal.<\/p>\n<p>Calvert had 11 goals and 15 assists for 26 points in 82 games in the regular season. He also added 58 penalty minutes in the 2018-19 season. His possession numbers were 50.2 percent Corsi\u00a0and a relative Corsi of 0.5. He&#8217;s also supplied three assists in seven post-season games for Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>The left winger has played for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/blue-jackets\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Columbus Blue Jackets<\/a> and the Colorado Avalanche in his nine-year NHL career. He has 72 goals and 77 assists for 149 career points in 416 career games. Columbus originally selected him in the fifth round, 127th overall of the 2008 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a player we really value. We\u2019re going to miss him, and we\u2019re going to have to step up accordingly,\u201d Avs defenseman <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/coleia01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ian Cole<\/a><\/strong> said of Calvert <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/04\/30\/that-big-hit-on-matt-calvert-late-in-game-2-will-force-the-avalanche-forward-to-miss-game-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">to the Denver Post<\/a>. The duo played together last season with the Columbus Blue Jackets. \u201cIt\u2019s stuff like that that makes a difference. It can\u2019t be overstated how much those small things matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/a\/andrisv01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sven Andrighetto<\/a><\/strong> will replace Calvert in the lineup, coach<strong> Jared Bednar<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n<h2>What This Means for the Future<\/h2>\n<p>Calvert may not fill up the stat sheet with points, but he&#8217;s played an important part for the Avalanche. He can do the little things and does a solid job at killing penalties. He&#8217;s been a reliable part of the lineup since coming over from Columbus.<\/p>\n<p>Game 3 will be Tuesday night while the Game 4 will be Thursday night in Denver.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/04\/matt-calvert-of-the-colorado-avalanche-competes-for-the-puck-against-picture-id1145906901.jpg\" alt=\"\">SAN JOSE, CA &#8211; APRIL 28: Matt Calvert #11 of the Colorado Avalanche competes for the puck against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/hertlto01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tomas Hertl<\/a> #48 of the San Jose Sharks in Game Two of the Western Conference Second Round during the 2019 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at SAP Center on April 28, 2019 in San Jose, California. (Photo by Lachlan Cunningham\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Colorado Avalanche have announced that forward Matt Calvert is out for Game 3 with an upper-body injury. Calvert&#8217;s status was announced after the morning skate on Tuesday. That big hit on Matt Calvert late in Game 2 will force the Avalanche forward to miss Game 3. Here&#39;s the story: https:\/\/t.co\/Er72biEdVp via @denverpost #Avs #SJSharks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":46343,"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":[28,34],"tags":[3826,333,36,5738,911,2569,955,117,1312],"class_list":["post-46338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avalanche","category-news","tag-2019-stanley-cup-playoffs","tag-brent-burns","tag-colorado-avalanche","tag-hockey-news","tag-matt-calvert","tag-news","tag-nhl-news","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-sven-andrighetto"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46338","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=46338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}