{"id":83766,"date":"2020-08-23T20:20:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T00:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=83766"},"modified":"2020-12-26T16:30:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T21:30:05","slug":"colorado-avalanche-philipp-grubauer-hurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2020\/08\/23\/colorado-avalanche-philipp-grubauer-hurt\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Avalanche Philipp Grubauer Hurt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/avalanche\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Colorado Avalanche<\/a> have lost goaltender <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/grubaph01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Philipp Grubauer<\/a><\/strong> for at least one game. He was injured in an awkward moment early in the second period in the team&#8217;s first playoff game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/stars\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dallas Stars<\/a>. Mike Chambers of the Denver Post made the injury announcement on Sunday<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Avalanche injuries: Philipp Grubauer out for Game 2, Erik Johnson doubtful and Matt Calvert questionable <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MNB2dtrlb7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/MNB2dtrlb7<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/denverpost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@denverpost<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mike Chambers (@MikeChambers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeChambers\/status\/1297636101968953344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 23, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Avalanche Philipp Grubauer Hurt<\/h3>\n<p>Grubauer was very fine for the Avs in 2019-20. He basically repeated 2018-19 with 18 wins in 33 starts with a save percentage of .916 and 2.63 goals-against-average. Some of his advanced stats such as goals-saved-above-average weren&#8217;t as good but he was still an above-average goaltender. Some of his struggles are certainly the result of defensive lapses on the blueline.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/capitals\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washington Capitals<\/a> originally drafted Grubauer in the fourth round of the 2010 Draft. he debuted in 2012-13 but didn&#8217;t get major playing time until 2015-16. That was the year where Grubauer started in 16 games with a .918 save percentage and 2.32 goals-against. His career numbers feature 79 wins with a .920 save percentage and 2.44 goals-against. Grubauer is part of a recent wave of players from Germany making their mark in the league. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/greisth01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thomas Greiss<\/a><\/strong> is the only German-born goaltender with more games to his name at this time.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means for the Future<\/h3>\n<p>The team only brought three goaltenders to its bubble. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/f\/francpa01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pavel Francouz<\/a><\/strong> will handle the primary duties while Grubauer tries to return. Francouz was also very good this season. He had a .923 save percentage and 2.41 goals-against in 34 games. His backup will be <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/hutchmi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Hutchinson<\/a><\/strong>, who started the year for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/maple-leafs\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> but <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/2020\/02\/24\/toronto-maple-leafs-trade-goaltender-michael-hutchinson\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">joined<\/a> the team at the trade deadline. Hutchinson was terrible for the Leafs but had one strong start in Colorado where he stopped 17 of 18 shots in a victory. His 2019-20 stats are five wins in 12 starts with a .888 save percentage and 3.47 goals-against. He is an experienced backup but the Avs would be in a dangerous position if Francouz is also hurt while Grubauer is healing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/1267759540\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 68.85522% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/1267759540?et=xN86glifSBJnICKZrVTP6A&amp;tld=ca&amp;sig=G2-feNg-6-qDOD0PdRMYu_n41YZJJC5OQ6o1Yxo-jQk=&amp;caption=true&amp;ver=1\" width=\"594\" height=\"409\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Colorado Avalanche have lost goaltender Philipp Grubauer for at least one game. He was injured in an awkward moment early in the second period in the team&#8217;s first playoff game against the Dallas Stars. Mike Chambers of the Denver Post made the injury announcement on Sunday Avalanche injuries: Philipp Grubauer out for Game 2, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3127,"featured_media":83883,"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":[28,4547,34,4548],"tags":[4565,36,102,5738,641,2569,955,3276,3187],"class_list":["post-83766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avalanche","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","tag-2020-stanley-cup-playoffs","tag-colorado-avalanche","tag-dallas-stars","tag-hockey-news","tag-michael-hutchinson","tag-news","tag-nhl-news","tag-pavel-francouz","tag-philipp-grubauer"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83766","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=83766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}