{"id":84017,"date":"2020-08-25T12:26:16","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T16:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=84017"},"modified":"2020-12-26T16:30:03","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T21:30:03","slug":"ryan-mcdonagh-out-tampa-bay-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2020\/08\/25\/ryan-mcdonagh-out-tampa-bay-lightning\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan McDonagh Out for Tampa Bay Lightning in Game 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/lightning\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a>, via coach\u00a0<strong>Jon Cooper<\/strong>, announced that defenceman\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mcdonry01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ryan McDonagh<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>would not suit up for Game 2 against the Boston Bruins. The Lightning find themselves down 1-0 in this Eastern Conference Second round series.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Per Coop, Ryan McDonagh will not play tonight in Game 2. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TBLvsBOS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#TBLvsBOS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tampa Bay Lightning (@TBLightning) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TBLightning\/status\/1298276506876227584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 25, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Ryan McDonagh Out for Tampa Bay Lightning<\/h2>\n<p>The reason why McDonagh won&#8217;t be going tonight is unclear, but regardless, the Lightning are losing an important force on their back end. Despite experiencing a down season, McDonagh has played huge minutes for the team during their current playoff run. The defender has averaged 26:07 of ice time a night through nine games while also tallying three assists.<\/p>\n<p>The Lightning also miss out on a wealth of playoff experience. McDonagh is now making his tenth playoff appearance, and his third with the Lightning. Across 126 playoff games between the Lightning and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/rangers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Rangers<\/a>, McDonagh has 10 goals and 39 assists for 49 points.<\/p>\n<p>Over ten NHL season, McDonagh has played in 662 NHL regular-season games. He&#8217;s garnered 63 goals and 236 assists for 299 career points while averaging 23:07 per night throughout his career.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means for the Future<\/h3>\n<p>McDonagh being out will require the Lightning&#8217;s depth to step up as they try to tie the series and ultimately win the seven-game bout. It&#8217;s a big opportunity for youngsters like\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/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>, who will be primarily responsible for filling McDonagh&#8217;s absence. Sergachev hasn&#8217;t broken through offensively in these playoffs just yet, but is averaging almost 24 minutes a night. He&#8217;s proven he can handle the big minutes and should be a reliable fall-back option for Tampa.<\/p>\n<p>Other veterans like\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/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>\u00a0<\/strong>will also get a chance to draw back into the lineup, replacing some of that playoff experience that the Lightning lose with the absence of McDonagh.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"1LSW6njeSxVhqCp34MBbTw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1267185815\" 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:'1LSW6njeSxVhqCp34MBbTw',sig:'zlnbAUNZ6Aas1whgav0KpcUPMx97_9llUYglUeHUDOo=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1267185815',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 Tampa Bay Lightning, via coach\u00a0Jon Cooper, announced that defenceman\u00a0Ryan McDonagh\u00a0would not suit up for Game 2 against the Boston Bruins. The Lightning find themselves down 1-0 in this Eastern Conference Second round series. Per Coop, Ryan McDonagh will not play tonight in Game 2. #TBLvsBOS \u2014 Tampa Bay Lightning (@TBLightning) August 25, 2020 Ryan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3006,"featured_media":84022,"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":[9,4547,34,4548],"tags":[4565,4141,37,5738,200,2569,38,955,1131,42],"class_list":["post-84017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lightning","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","tag-2020-stanley-cup-playoffs","tag-braydon-coburn","tag-hockey","tag-hockey-news","tag-mikhail-sergachev","tag-news","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-news","tag-ryan-mcdonagh","tag-tampa-bay-lightning"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84017","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=84017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}