{"id":70851,"date":"2020-03-08T13:11:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T17:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=70851"},"modified":"2020-03-08T16:25:18","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T20:25:18","slug":"tampa-bay-lightning-victor-hedman-to-miss-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2020\/03\/08\/tampa-bay-lightning-victor-hedman-to-miss-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Lightning Victor Hedman to Miss Sunday&#8217;s Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/lightning\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> will hold defender <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> out of Sunday&#8217;s game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/red-wings\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Detroit Red Wings<\/a>. Hedman is dealing with a lower-body injury and the team considers him day-to-day. He was re-evaluated after suffering an injury Saturday against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/bruins\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Boston Bruins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Injury update: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TBLightning?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#TBLightning<\/a> defenseman Victor Hedman is listed as day-to-day with a lower-body injury. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TBLvsDET?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#TBLvsDET<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tampa Bay Lightning (@TBLightning) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TBLightning\/status\/1236744011236495360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 8, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Victor Hedman Day To Day<\/h2>\n<p>Hedman has been the Lightning&#8217;s most productive defender in 2019-20. The 29-year-old has 11 goals and 55 points in 66 games. He also leads all skaters in average ice time with 24:04 and anchors the power play. Hedman handled almost all key aspects of the team&#8217;s offence from the point. The team has plenty of firepower but Hedman has been one of the primary drivers. His 53.0 Corsi For is one of the best among Lightning defenders.<\/p>\n<p>The second overall pick from the 2009 Draft has been one of the NHL&#8217;s most consistent scoring defenders for most of his career. Hedman has never contributed fewer than 20 points in any of his 11 years in the league. His best season came in 2016-17 when Hedman scored 16 goals and 72 points in 79 games but there is a slim chance he could exceed that total if this injury does not keep him out of the action for too long.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means for the Future<\/h3>\n<p>It is unclear what he is ailing Hedman, so we do not have a timetable for his return until his re-evaluation on Monday. Tampa Bay is currently locked into a playoff spot. They are seven points behind Boston but 11 points ahead of the third-place <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/maple-leafs\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><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> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/shattke01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kevin Shattenkirk<\/a><\/strong> are more than capable of running the power-play until Hedman returns. They also <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/2020\/02\/23\/zach-bogosian-tampa-bay-lightning\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">signed<\/a> former <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/sabres\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buffalo Sabres<\/a> defender <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/bogosza01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zach Bogosian<\/a><\/strong> to be an additional physical presence on the blueline. Assuming Monday&#8217;s evaluation goes well, Hedman will come back strong for the first round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"bgj11lPTSW1gzrNKy4pRdg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/1208693758\" 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:'bgj11lPTSW1gzrNKy4pRdg',sig:'hbFutv1xUYaFC0wYVYWdoJFVwXyjlLbpT7FP28QELEs=',w:'594px',h:'391px',items:'1208693758',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 Tampa Bay Lightning will hold defender Victor Hedman out of Sunday&#8217;s game against the Detroit Red Wings. Hedman is dealing with a lower-body injury and the team considers him day-to-day. He was re-evaluated after suffering an injury Saturday against the Boston Bruins. Injury update: #TBLightning defenseman Victor Hedman is listed as day-to-day with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3127,"featured_media":70854,"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":[90,95,955,42,1124],"class_list":["post-70851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lightning","category-news","tag-boston-bruins","tag-detroit-red-wings","tag-nhl-news","tag-tampa-bay-lightning","tag-victor-hedman"],"modified_by":"Jim Biringer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70851","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=70851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}