{"id":58874,"date":"2019-10-14T15:48:55","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T19:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=58874"},"modified":"2019-10-14T15:48:55","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T19:48:55","slug":"minnesota-wild-mats-zuccarello-out-with-lower-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/10\/14\/minnesota-wild-mats-zuccarello-out-with-lower-body-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Wild Mats Zuccarello Out With Lower-Body Injury"},"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 forward <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/z\/zuccama01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Mats Zuccarello<\/strong><\/a> did not travel with the team to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/senators\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ottawa<\/a> to start their three-game road trip. Zuccarello is out with what the club is calling a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n<h2>Wild Mats Zuccarello Out with Lower-Body Injury<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mnwild?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#mnwild<\/a> forward Mats Zuccarello did not travel with the team to Ottawa and is out for this week\u2019s road trip due to a lower body injury.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Minnesota Wild (@mnwild) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mnwild\/status\/1183777998702600199?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 14, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nZuccarello sustained the injury during the team&#8217;s 7-4 loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday. Coach Bruch Boudreau stated the forward sustained &#8220;bumps and bruises&#8221; which will keep the forward out for the upcoming road trip in Eastern Canada.<\/p>\n<p>In four games this season, Zuccarello has yet to register a point.<\/p>\n<p>Over his 10 year career, Zuccarello has scored 114 goals and added 241 assists for 355 points in 515 games.<\/p>\n<p>Zuccarello <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/2019\/06\/30\/minnesota-wild-mats-zuccarello\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was signed by the Wild<\/a> on July 1st to a five-year deal worth $30 million.<\/p>\n<h3>Tough Break for the Wild and Zuccarello<\/h3>\n<p>This is not the news the Wild needed as the club is off to a dreadful start in the 2019-20 season. The Wild lost their first four games before securing a win against the Senators on Monday. They have been outscored 21-12 over that span. Zuccarello is expected to be a major part of the club&#8217;s offence, however, he is off to a slow start. With the term &#8220;bumps and bruises&#8221; being used, it does not sound like it will be a long term injury.<\/p>\n<p>With Zuccarello out, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/donatry01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Ryan Donato<\/strong><\/a> will draw back into the lineup. Donato played the first three games of the season where he was also held without a point.<\/p>\n<p>The Wild started their road trip in Ottawa today against the Senators. They will play the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/maple-leafs\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> on Tuesday night and finish the road trip in Montreal against the Canadiens on Thursday. They will return home on Sunday to face the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/canadiens\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Canadiens<\/a> once again. The club is hopeful to have Zuccarello back in time for that game.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"Sf2_r1nHT6JqLwsAV0nkzA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/1139492372\" 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:'Sf2_r1nHT6JqLwsAV0nkzA',sig:'mS0xg7sNXPVa9tXcY7ybu06-me_K4Qp_xvDiGp-mfjA=',w:'594px',h:'415px',items:'1139492372',caption: true ,tld:'ca',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Wild have announced that forward Mats Zuccarello did not travel with the team to Ottawa to start their three-game road trip. Zuccarello is out with what the club is calling a lower-body injury. Wild Mats Zuccarello Out with Lower-Body Injury #mnwild forward Mats Zuccarello did not travel with the team to Ottawa and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2506,"featured_media":58877,"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":[1351,221],"class_list":["post-58874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wild","category-news","tag-mats-zuccarello","tag-minnesota-wild"],"modified_by":"Colton Osmond, Dept Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58874","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\/2506"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}