{"id":65538,"date":"2020-01-07T20:41:58","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T01:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=65538"},"modified":"2021-03-11T23:29:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T04:29:44","slug":"buffalo-sabres-jake-mccabe-out-with-upper-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2020\/01\/07\/buffalo-sabres-jake-mccabe-out-with-upper-body-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo Sabres Jake McCabe 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> will be without <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mccabja01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jake McCabe<\/a><\/strong> for at least one game. The defenceman did not make the team&#8217;s one-game road trip for a game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/blues\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">St. Louis Blues<\/a>. The team announced the news early Thursday morning alongside some minor events.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Sabres have announced the following updates for today&#39;s practice. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rE7Cu57FoA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/rE7Cu57FoA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Buffalo Sabres PR (@SabresPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SabresPR\/status\/1214577117171736580?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 7, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Jake McCabe Out With Injury<\/h2>\n<p>The 26-year-old defender has been a minor offensive contributor through Buffalo&#8217;s first half. McCabe has two goals and seven points in 41 games while averaging 19:23 minutes per game. His primary value is in his physical game with 60 hits and team-best 61 blocks. McCabe is also tied for second among regular defenders in defensive zone starts at 55.4 percent. His 2:45 in short-handed ice time narrowly edges out <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/ristora01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rasmus Ristolainen<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>for best among Sabres skaters and he is just under 50 percent in terms of Corsi For.<\/p>\n<p>All these numbers add up to a player who does not dominate a game but helps control it in a significant way. The Sabres are not a strong offensive squad but that only magnifies how important their defence is this year. They are slightly below league average in terms of goals-against but not as bad as 2018-19. McCabe&#8217;s signing in August is part of what has made Buffalo stronger on defence.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means for the Future<\/h3>\n<p>It is unlikely this injury factors in much for the near future. He will miss the next game against St. Louis but could return January 11th against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/canucks\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vancouver Canucks<\/a>. A two-game absence could indicate something more serious. The team recently recalled <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/pilutla01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lawrence Pilut<\/a><\/strong> from AHL Rochester. The 23-year-old has not played in the NHL in 2019-20 but does have five goals and 21 points in 29 games this season. He played in 33 games in 2018-19 with one goal and six points. Pilut might not play depending on how long McCabe is out but could be a factor moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"fofkl6sgS2FSmF_asGg8Rw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1183922547\" 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:'fofkl6sgS2FSmF_asGg8Rw',sig:'ql93KsILVLlrRpJpv5tzNdsj8ucorMx6QAEXPQ8LhNs=',w:'594px',h:'398px',items:'1183922547',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Buffalo Sabres will be without Jake McCabe for at least one game. The defenceman did not make the team&#8217;s one-game road trip for a game against the St. Louis Blues. The team announced the news early Thursday morning alongside some minor events. The Sabres have announced the following updates for today&#39;s practice. pic.twitter.com\/rE7Cu57FoA &mdash; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3127,"featured_media":65549,"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],"tags":[182,1113,3818],"class_list":["post-65538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sabres","category-injuries","category-news","tag-buffalo-sabres","tag-jake-mccabe","tag-lawrence-pilut"],"modified_by":"William Grigsby","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65538","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\/3127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}