{"id":5234,"date":"2017-01-09T21:01:45","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T02:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=5234"},"modified":"2017-01-09T21:02:01","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T02:02:01","slug":"2017-draft-prospect-nolan-patrick-return-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2017\/01\/09\/2017-draft-prospect-nolan-patrick-return-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 NHL Draft Prospect Nolan Patrick to Return from Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to reports from the WHL&#8217;s Brandon Wheat Kings, 2017 NHL Draft prospect <strong>Nolan Patrick<\/strong> is set to return from a sports hernia injury that has sidelined him since October 11. Patrick, currently expected to go first overall at the draft in June, posted nine points in the Wheat Kings&#8217; first six games of the season, before his injury forced him to sit out.<\/p>\n<h2>2017 NHL Draft Prospect Nolan Patrick to Return from Injury<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BWK?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#BWK<\/a> Captain Nolan Patrick closes in on his return to the lineup! Targeting Friday vs Kootenay at Westman Place! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Patty?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Patty<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/bdnmb?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#bdnmb<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/I6uV1iJh46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/I6uV1iJh46<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brandon Wheat Kings (@bdnwheatkings) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bdnwheatkings\/status\/818537800970616832\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Patrick had surgery for his hernia over the summer, but when his groin continued to be an issue he was kept out of the lineup. As a result, Patrick missed the World Junior Championship, where he was expected to play for Team Canada.<\/p>\n<p>According to Wheat Kings GM <strong>Grant Armstrong<\/strong>, the plan is for Patrick to suit up on Friday against the Kootenay Ice. He joined the team for his first full-contact practice Monday, after a three-month absence.<\/p>\n<p>The Winnipeg native finished fifth in WHL scoring last season with 41 goals and 61 assists for 102 points, and recorded 30 more points in Brandon&#8217;s deep playoff run that saw them win the WHL championship and appear in the Memorial Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick, current captain of the Wheat Kings, has been a highly-touted prospect for several years now. Originally picked fourth overall in the WHL Bantam Draft, he has been the presumptive top prospect for the NHL in 2017 since his rookie-of-the-year 2014-15 season.<\/p>\n<p>Brandon currently sits fourth in the WHL&#8217;s East Division, occupying the top wildcard spot and nine points back of the third-place Swift Current Broncos.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/458050442\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/458050442?et=HgVKbaQOQ2lN7OXqk1FIDA&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=n4Nm4LkWG76qSty-Bva739u8vNM1M3tSP0xQHytx3aI=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to reports from the WHL&#8217;s Brandon Wheat Kings, 2017 NHL Draft prospect Nolan Patrick is set to return from a sports hernia injury that has sidelined him since October 11. Patrick, currently expected to go first overall at the draft in June, posted nine points in the Wheat Kings&#8217; first six games of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":3712,"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":[309,34],"tags":[919,981,37,797,683,925],"class_list":["post-5234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nhl-top-prospects","category-news","tag-2017-nhl-draft","tag-brandon-wheat-kings","tag-hockey","tag-junior-hockey","tag-nolan-patrick","tag-whl"],"modified_by":"Nic Hendrickson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5234","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\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}