{"id":67742,"date":"2020-02-06T12:58:08","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T17:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=67742"},"modified":"2020-12-26T16:30:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T21:30:45","slug":"jan-rutta-of-tampa-bay-lightning-out-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2020\/02\/06\/jan-rutta-of-tampa-bay-lightning-out-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Jan Rutta of Tampa Bay Lightning Out Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/lightning\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> announced that defenceman <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/ruttaja02.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jan Rutta<\/a> <\/strong>is sidelined for weeks with a lower-body injury. Tampa Bay head coach Jon Cooper said he&#8217;s out weeks, but it&#8217;s not season-ending.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Per Coop, Jan Rutta\u2019s lower-body injury will keep him out a few weeks but it is not season-ending. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PITvsTBL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#PITvsTBL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tampa Bay Lightning (@TBLightning) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TBLightning\/status\/1225447614667218945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 6, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Jan Rutta Injured<\/h2>\n<p>Rutta left Tuesday&#8217;s game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/knights\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vegas Golden Knights<\/a> with a lower-body injury. He only played two minutes, 40 seconds of ice time before he left the game. The Knights <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/royni01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nicolas Roy<\/a><\/strong> ran into the back of Rutta&#8217;s legs. Rutta was in considerable pain before being helped off the ice.<\/p>\n<p>So far this season, Rutta has scored one goal and six assists for seven points in 33 games. The Pisek, Czechoslovakia native also has 14 penalty minutes. His possession numbers are 54.1 percent Corsi and a relative Corsi of 2.0.<\/p>\n<p>Over his four-year NHL career, Rutta has played for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/blackhawks\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chicago Blackhawks<\/a> and the Lightning. He has nine goals and 26 assists for 35 career points in 127 career games. Chicago signed him as undrafted free agent after playing for Pirati Chomutov<\/p>\n<p>Cooper said that he hopes that Rutta <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/lightning\/news\/how-do-the-lightning-adjust-with-jan-rutta-out\/c-314688212\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">will be back<\/a> by the start of the playoffs, but he will take some time to recover.<\/p>\n<h2>What This Means for the Future<\/h2>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/coburbr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Braydon Coburn<\/a><\/strong> will slot into the lineup to take Rutta&#8217;s place on the roster. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/sergami01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mikhail Sergachev<\/a><\/strong> will likely move into Rutta&#8217;s spot on defence with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/hedmavi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Victor Hedman<\/a><\/strong>. Rutta had been playing with Hedman the last 14 games and they were forming a solid partnership.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/schenlu01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Luke Schenn<\/a><\/strong> may also get some time in the lineup while Rutta is out of the lineup. Both Coburn and Schenn are veterans that can plug the hole while the Czech defender is out of action.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay currently sits in second place in the Atlantic Division and has been playing a lot better after a slow start. 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Tampa Bay head coach Jon Cooper said he&#8217;s out weeks, but it&#8217;s not season-ending. Per Coop, Jan Rutta\u2019s lower-body injury will keep him out a few weeks but it is not season-ending. #PITvsTBL &mdash; Tampa Bay Lightning (@TBLightning) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":67745,"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":[9,34],"tags":[4141,5738,1742,1032,2851,200,2569,955,2279,42,1124],"class_list":["post-67742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lightning","category-news","tag-braydon-coburn","tag-hockey-news","tag-jan-rutta","tag-jon-cooper","tag-luke-schenn","tag-mikhail-sergachev","tag-news","tag-nhl-news","tag-nicolas-roy","tag-tampa-bay-lightning","tag-victor-hedman"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67742","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\/2352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}