{"id":62749,"date":"2019-12-01T16:50:57","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T21:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=62749"},"modified":"2020-12-26T16:31:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T21:31:05","slug":"columbus-blue-jackets-defenceman-zach-werenski-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/12\/01\/columbus-blue-jackets-defenceman-zach-werenski-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbus Blue Jackets Defenceman Zach Werenski Injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/blue-jackets\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Columbus Blue Jackets<\/a> announced that defenceman\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/w\/werenza01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zach Werenski<\/a><\/strong> is sidelined for at least four weeks with a shoulder injury.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CBJ?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#CBJ<\/a> defenseman Zach Werenski expected to miss four weeks with a shoulder injury. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HfD0L3OnlU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/HfD0L3OnlU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Columbus Blue Jackets (@BlueJacketsNHL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlueJacketsNHL\/status\/1201225600406577152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Zach Werenski Injured<\/h2>\n<p>Zach Werenski sustained the shoulder injury on Saturday night against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/islanders\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Islanders<\/a> in the first period. The injury was sustained after an awkward interaction with Islander captain\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/leean01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anders Lee<\/a><\/strong> in front of the Blue Jackets net.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here\u2019s another look at the hit that caused the injury <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CBJ?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#CBJ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bnUrKNR4QB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/bnUrKNR4QB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Alison (@AlisonL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlisonL\/status\/1201227433254563845?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>So far this season, Werenski has scored six goals and 10 assists for 16 points to go along with eight minutes in penalties through 26 games. His possession numbers are 49.9 percent Corsi and a relative Corsi of 1.6.<\/p>\n<p>Over his four-year NHL career, Zach Werenski has played exclusively for the Columbus Blue Jackets. He has 44 goals and 100 assists for 144 career points in 263 career games. He was originally drafted by the Blue Jackets in the 1st round, 8th overall in the 2015 NHL draft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a big hit (to our team),\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/1423309\/2019\/12\/01\/its-a-big-hit-blue-jackets-zach-werenski-to-miss-one-month-with-shoulder-injury\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blue Jackets general manager Jarmo Kekalainen said<\/a>. \u201cZach creates offence, and we\u2019re a team that\u2019s struggling to score goals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne thing I liked about our game Saturday is how the other D stepped up,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/1423309\/2019\/12\/01\/its-a-big-hit-blue-jackets-zach-werenski-to-miss-one-month-with-shoulder-injury\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kekalainen said<\/a>. \u201c(Dean) Kukan played great. Gavrikov played great. The other guys (Murray, Savard, Jones) are known commodities, but those two guys haven\u2019t really played a lot in this league, and the more they played, the better they played, so that\u2019s good.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>What This Means for the Future<\/h2>\n<p>The Blue Jackets struggled to start the season, sitting second-last in the Metropolitan Division, ahead of only the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/devils\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Jersey Devils<\/a>. Losing a player like Werenski is a big hit to a struggling team. <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/2019\/09\/09\/columbus-blue-jackets-zach-werenski\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Werenski is in the first year of his new deal<\/a> and hasn&#8217;t missed any time yet this season. The Blue Jackets will have to hope their other defenceman can cover the loss of Werenski.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/12\/Zach-Werenski.jpg\" alt=\"\">NEW YORK, NEW YORK &#8211; NOVEMBER 30: Zach Werenski #8 of the Columbus Blue Jackets is injured during the first period against the New York Islanders at the Barclays Center on November 30, 2019 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. The Islanders shut-out the Blue Jackets 2-0. (Photo by Bruce Bennett\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Columbus Blue Jackets announced that defenceman\u00a0Zach Werenski is sidelined for at least four weeks with a shoulder injury. #CBJ defenseman Zach Werenski expected to miss four weeks with a shoulder injury. https:\/\/t.co\/HfD0L3OnlU &mdash; Columbus Blue Jackets (@BlueJacketsNHL) December 1, 2019 Zach Werenski Injured Zach Werenski sustained the shoulder injury on Saturday night against the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2399,"featured_media":62754,"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":[11,34],"tags":[996,111,5738,286,2569,955,528],"class_list":["post-62749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bluejackets","category-news","tag-anders-lee","tag-columbus-blue-jackets","tag-hockey-news","tag-jarmo-kekalainen","tag-news","tag-nhl-news","tag-zach-werenski"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62749","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\/2399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}