{"id":59767,"date":"2019-10-25T15:13:15","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T19:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=59767"},"modified":"2019-10-25T15:14:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T19:14:54","slug":"st-louis-blues-vladimir-tarasenko-out-with-upper-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/10\/25\/st-louis-blues-vladimir-tarasenko-out-with-upper-body-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis Blues Vladimir Tarasenko Out With Upper-Body Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/2019\/10\/24\/st-louis-blues-sammy-blais\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">St. Louis Blues<\/a> will be without the services of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/tarasvl01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vladimir Tarasenko<\/a><\/strong>, who did not finish Thursday night&#8217;s game after leaving with an upper-body injury. The Blues announced the forward will miss the club&#8217;s upcoming two-game road trip. Tarasenko will be re-evaluated on Monday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Vladimir Tarasenko is not traveling with the team for its two-game road trip and will be re-evaluated Monday. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XxSV6qPYPd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/XxSV6qPYPd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 St. Louis Blues (@StLouisBlues) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StLouisBlues\/status\/1187798544926826509?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 25, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Vladimir Tarasenko Injured<\/h2>\n<p>During Thursday night&#8217;s game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/kings\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Los Angeles Kings<\/a>, Tarasenko left the game with an injury. It is unclear how the injury occurred, it appears Tarasenko got injured after Kings defenceman <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/w\/walkese01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sean Walker<\/a><\/strong> knocked him off the puck on a breakaway attempt. Tarasenko tried to muscle Walker off the puck as they come together. After contact was made he skated straight to the bench and did not return.<\/p>\n<p>From the looks of it, Tarasenko was grabbing at his left shoulder. Tarasenko has a history of shoulder problems. Recall that he dislocated his left shoulder in Game 2 of 2019 Stanley Cup Final against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/bruins\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Boston Bruins<\/a>. Not to mention Tarasenko had surgery to repair a dislocation on that same shoulder following the 2017-18 season.\u00a0Tarasenko was on a five-game point streak and through 10 games he has three goals and seven assists.<\/p>\n<h3>Moving Forward<\/h3>\n<p>After Tarasenko left the game, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/perroda01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Perron<\/a><\/strong> bumped up to the first line playing alongside <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/schenbr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brayden Schenn<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/schwaja01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jaden Schwartz<\/a><\/strong>. With the way that combination looked against the Kings, the Blues will want to use them going forward. On the power play, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/parayco01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Colton Parayko<\/a> <\/strong>will take Tarasenko&#8217;s spot running the power play from the point.<\/p>\n<p>Already without left winger <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/blaissa01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sammy Blais<\/a><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/2019\/10\/24\/st-louis-blues-sammy-blais\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">with a hand injury<\/a>, the defending Stanley Cup Champions can&#8217;t afford to lose one of their leading scorers to be out of the lineup for a long period of time. If Tarasenko is out long-term the Blues will hope that Schenn continues his scoring ways. Schenn is the leading scorer and is making the Blues look good <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/2019\/10\/04\/brayden-schenn-signs-extension-with-st-louis-blues\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">after signing his eight-year extension<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"azI-MZXESghW5ofJU2mr4g\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/1177723335\" 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:'azI-MZXESghW5ofJU2mr4g',sig:'KKKaeJAHSZWE3Hpe01Ywd4abf7rhyA6pPSUemM4TOSs=',w:'594px',h:'404px',items:'1177723335',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 St. Louis Blues will be without the services of Vladimir Tarasenko, who did not finish Thursday night&#8217;s game after leaving with an upper-body injury. The Blues announced the forward will miss the club&#8217;s upcoming two-game road trip. Tarasenko will be re-evaluated on Monday. Vladimir Tarasenko is not traveling with the team for its two-game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3130,"featured_media":59818,"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":[32,34],"tags":[39,716],"class_list":["post-59767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blues","category-news","tag-st-louis-blues","tag-vladimir-tarasenko"],"modified_by":"Colton Osmond, Dept Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59767","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\/3130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}