{"id":84080,"date":"2020-08-26T13:16:12","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T17:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=84080"},"modified":"2020-12-26T16:30:03","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T21:30:03","slug":"blues-vladimir-tarasenko-out-five-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2020\/08\/26\/blues-vladimir-tarasenko-out-five-months\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis Blues Vladimir Tarasenko Out Additional Five Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/blues\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">St. Louis Blues<\/a> have announced that forward <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/tarasvl01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vladimir Tarasenko<\/a><\/strong> is out with an injury. He requires additional surgery on his left shoulder and will be re-evaluated in five months.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Doug Armstrong said Vladimir Tarasenko will have shoulder surgery next week and won\u2019t be re-evaluated again for five months. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/stlblues?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#stlblues<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ewhvtkn4YR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/Ewhvtkn4YR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; St. Louis Blues (@StLouisBlues) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StLouisBlues\/status\/1298653271742193670?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 26, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/tarasvl01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vladimir Tarasenko<\/a> Out for the Blues<\/h2>\n<p>Tarasenko initially injured his shoulder on October 24, 2019, when he was battling with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/w\/walkese01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sean Walker<\/a><\/strong> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/kings\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Los Angeles Kings<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/2020\/08\/18\/st-louis-blues-forward-vladimir-tarasenko-out-for-first-round\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">He missed one round robin game and 61 games of the first round<\/a>.\u00a0 In the playoffs, he was deemed &#8220;unfit to play&#8221; for one round robin game and games 3 and 4 against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/canucks\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vancouver Canucks<\/a>. He left the Edmonton bubble on August 18 to seek further medical evaluation for his damaged shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>In 10 games during the regular season, Tarasenko had three goals and seven assists for ten points. His possession numbers were 51.5% Corsi and 2.9% relative Corsi. In the four Stanley Cup Playoffs games he played in, Tarasenko scored 0 goals and had 0 assists, and a plus\/minus of -1. Over his eight year career, Tarasenko has put up 214 goals and 214 assists for 428 points, all with the Blues. He was selected in the first round, 16th overall by the Blues in 2010.<\/p>\n<h3>Going Forward<\/h3>\n<p>With the Blues eliminated by the Canucks, Tarasenko has plenty of time to recover. He will likely miss the beginning of the 2020-2021 season, even if he is fully healthy after the five month recovery time. Even though the Blues offense is deep, the Russian sniper is certainly a large part of creating offensive chances. However, many Blues fans are worried he will be unable to continue playing full 82-game seasons.<\/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\/1226959002\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 81.48148% 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\/1226959002?et=6V0nEsGkRFZXMW1XMpqcUg&amp;tld=ca&amp;sig=DRbYudOeq-E3bRDA7vtsiMh_dFpDyzaLNpYp9MMnjQU=&amp;caption=true&amp;ver=1\" width=\"594\" height=\"484\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Blues have announced that forward Vladimir Tarasenko is out with an injury. He requires additional surgery on his left shoulder and will be re-evaluated in five months. Doug Armstrong said Vladimir Tarasenko will have shoulder surgery next week and won\u2019t be re-evaluated again for five months. #stlblues pic.twitter.com\/Ewhvtkn4YR &mdash; St. Louis Blues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3605,"featured_media":84087,"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":[32,4547,34,4548],"tags":[4565,5738,2569,955,3847,39,716],"class_list":["post-84080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blues","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","tag-2020-stanley-cup-playoffs","tag-hockey-news","tag-news","tag-nhl-news","tag-sean-walker","tag-st-louis-blues","tag-vladimir-tarasenko"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84080","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\/3605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}