{"id":64770,"date":"2019-12-28T12:22:40","date_gmt":"2019-12-28T17:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=64770"},"modified":"2021-03-11T23:12:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T04:12:18","slug":"buffalo-sabres-jeff-skinner-out-with-upper-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/12\/28\/buffalo-sabres-jeff-skinner-out-with-upper-body-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo Sabres Jeff Skinner Out with Upper-Body Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/sabres\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buffalo Sabres<\/a> announced that left-winger <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/skinnje01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jeff Skinner<\/a><\/strong> is sidelined for three to four weeks with an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-page-content tagdiv-type\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Jeff Skinner will be out with an upper-body injury for 3-4 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Details: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tCraNtuneT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/tCraNtuneT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tIZE5qw9jz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/tIZE5qw9jz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Buffalo Sabres (@BuffaloSabres) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BuffaloSabres\/status\/1210961233073057793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 28, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Jeff Skinner Injured<\/h2>\n<p>Skinner left the game after an awkward collision with the Boston Bruins&#8217;\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/pastrda01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Pastrnak<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>during the third period of their game on Friday. Skinner did not return to the match.<\/p>\n<p>So far this season, Skinner has scored 11 goals and eight assists for 19 points to go along with 14 minutes in penalties. His possession numbers were 51.0 percent Corsi and a relative Corsi of 1.2 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Over his ten-year NHL career, Skinner has played for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/hurricanes\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carolina Hurricanes<\/a> in addition to the Sabres. He has 255 goals and 206 assists for 461 career points in 700 career games. He was originally drafted by the Hurricanes in the first round, seventh overall in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft.<\/p>\n<h2>What This Means for the Future<\/h2>\n<p>Skinner hasn&#8217;t been nearly as productive for the Sabres as he was last year, but he was still an important offensive part of a team that grossly lacks secondary scoring. If he gets hot, he can put pucks in the net (he had 40 goals last season), but obviously, that&#8217;s impossible if he&#8217;s out of the lineup.<\/p>\n<p>Buffalo sits in a very tight Atlantic Division playoff race, standing one point behind the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/canadiens\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a> for third place and tied with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/panthers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Florida Panthers<\/a> for fourth. Buffalo&#8217;s put up 115 goals on the season, while Montreal and Florida have put up 121 and 127, respectively. The difference in the offence will hamper Buffalo over this crucial stretch, as they don&#8217;t have anyone else suitable on the roster to step into his role.<\/p>\n<p>This provides a bit of an opportunity for the Sabres&#8217;\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mitteca01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Casey Mittelstadt<\/a><\/strong>. The once highly-touted prospect has spent a bit of time in the minors lately. A hole in Buffalo&#8217;s lineup could provide him with the opportunity to rediscover his game.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"rrujHBZPTOJLE1NKg0yj-w\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1190308849\" 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:'rrujHBZPTOJLE1NKg0yj-w',sig:'w1xM2kMQcTMUeKrkkpHqsrt4wjkmTORhoe8unq6vqJY=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1190308849',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Buffalo Sabres announced that left-winger Jeff Skinner is sidelined for three to four weeks with an upper-body injury. Jeff Skinner will be out with an upper-body injury for 3-4 weeks. Details: https:\/\/t.co\/tCraNtuneT pic.twitter.com\/tIZE5qw9jz \u2014 Buffalo Sabres (@BuffaloSabres) December 28, 2019 Jeff Skinner Injured Skinner left the game after an awkward collision with the Boston [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3006,"featured_media":64771,"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":[3,6671,34,4548],"tags":[182,37,1576,277,38],"class_list":["post-64770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sabres","category-injuries","category-news","category-nhl","tag-buffalo-sabres","tag-hockey","tag-injury","tag-jeff-skinner","tag-nhl"],"modified_by":"Josh Erickson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64770","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\/3006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}