{"id":57779,"date":"2019-10-01T13:49:12","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T17:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=57779"},"modified":"2020-12-26T16:31:41","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T21:31:41","slug":"greg-pateryn-of-minnesota-wild-has-back-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/10\/01\/greg-pateryn-of-minnesota-wild-has-back-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Pateryn of Minnesota Wild Has Back Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/wild\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Minnesota Wild<\/a> have announced that defenceman <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/patergr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Greg Pateryn<\/a> i<\/strong>s sidelined for up to six weeks after bilateral core surgery. Minnesota announced the injury news on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mnwild?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#mnwild<\/a> defenseman Greg Pateryn underwent successful bilateral core muscle repair surgery today. He is expected to return to play in approximately six weeks. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HVG2P5Jea8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/HVG2P5Jea8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Minnesota Wild PR (@mnwildPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mnwildPR\/status\/1179076339883823106?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Greg Pateryn Out After Back Surgery<\/h2>\n<p>It&#8217;s not known when Pateryn suffered the sports hernia injury. Dr. William Meyers of Philadelphia performed the surgery and Pateryn is expected to make a full recovery.<\/p>\n<p>The Sterling Heights, Mich. native had a goal and six assists for seven points in 80 games last season. He had a Corsi for of 48.9 and a relative Corsi of -2.6.<\/p>\n<p>Pateryn has played for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/canadiens\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/stars\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dallas Stars<\/a> and Minnesota Wild over his six-year NHL career. He has four goals and 32 assists for 36 career points in 247 career games. The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/maple-leafs\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> originally drafted him in the fifth round, 128th overall of the 2008 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>He was dealing with a lower-body injury early on in training camp, but was in the lineup in Sunday&#8217;s exhibition finale against the Winnipeg Jets.<\/p>\n<p>Pateryn played his college hockey at the University of Michigan for four seasons before he signed his professional deal with Toronto. Minnesota signed Pateryn to a three-year contract worth $6.75 million on July 1, 2018.<\/p>\n<h2>What This Means for the Future<\/h2>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/soucyca01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carson Soucy<\/a><\/strong> will take Pateryn&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/wild-defenseman-greg-pateryn-has-surgery-will-be-out-for-six-weeks\/561883222\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">place in the lineup<\/a> while he recovers. Soucy played with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/huntbr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brad Hunt<\/a> <\/strong>in Tuesday&#8217;s practice.<\/p>\n<p>Pateryn&#8217;s loss will hurt a Wild team that faces an uphill climb in the Central Division. The team is undergoing a transition with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/gueribi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bill Guerin<\/a> as the new general manager. Guering replaced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/f\/fentopa01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paul Fenton<\/a> as general manger in the middle of the off-season. Many have picked the Wild to struggle this season and miss the post-season once again.<\/p>\n<p>Pateryn should expects to return to the lineup in six weeks after he&#8217;s recovered from sports hernia surgery. The Wild hope he can return soon a stabilize the defence.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/10\/greg-pateryn-of-the-minnesota-wild-takes-the-puck-as-blake-coleman-of-picture-id1128534590.jpg\" alt=\"\">NEWARK, NEW JERSEY &#8211; FEBRUARY 09: Greg Pateryn #29 of the Minnesota Wild takes the puck as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/colembl01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blake Coleman<\/a> #20 of the New Jersey Devils defends at Prudential Center on February 09, 2019 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Elsa\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Wild have announced that defenceman Greg Pateryn is sidelined for up to six weeks after bilateral core surgery. Minnesota announced the injury news on Tuesday. #mnwild defenseman Greg Pateryn underwent successful bilateral core muscle repair surgery today. He is expected to return to play in approximately six weeks. pic.twitter.com\/HVG2P5Jea8 &mdash; Minnesota Wild PR [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":57788,"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":[30,34],"tags":[3886,4454,1297,5738,221,2569,955],"class_list":["post-57779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wild","category-news","tag-brad-hunt","tag-carson-soucy","tag-greg-pateryn","tag-hockey-news","tag-minnesota-wild","tag-news","tag-nhl-news"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57779","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=57779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}