{"id":84587,"date":"2020-09-01T11:06:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T15:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=84587"},"modified":"2020-12-26T16:30:03","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T21:30:03","slug":"pittsburgh-penguins-sidney-crosby-has-wrist-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2020\/09\/01\/pittsburgh-penguins-sidney-crosby-has-wrist-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Penguins Sidney Crosby Has Wrist Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/penguins\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> announced that centre and team captain <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/crosbsi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sidney Crosby<\/a><\/strong> is sidelined for three to four weeks after having wrist surgery. Pittsburgh officials announced the news early Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sidney Crosby underwent successful arthroscopic wrist surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Recovery time is expected to be 3-4 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Full details: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cg3K16jY7M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/cg3K16jY7M<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YZ07tykXS5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/YZ07tykXS5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pittsburgh Penguins (@penguins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/penguins\/status\/1300780569891147776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 1, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Sidney Crosby Undergoes Surgery<\/h2>\n<p>There&#8217;s no specific time that Crosby got the injury. However, he only scored two goals and three points in the qualifying round. He and the rest of the Penguins offence struggled in the four-game upset by the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/canadiens\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a>. Crosby and the Penguins were eliminated on his 33rd birthday on August 7 with a 2-0 loss.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, Crosby scored 16 goals and 31 assists for 47 points in 41 games. The Cole Harbuour, Nova Scotia native added 15 penalty minutes as well. His possession numbers were 54.2 percent Corsi and a relative Corsi of 4.8. Both of those numbers were close to his career normal numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Over his 15-year NHL career, Crosby has played only for the Pittsburgh Penguins. He has 462 goals and 801 assists for 1,263 career points in 984 career games. Pittsburgh originally drafted him first overall in the 2006 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Injuries derailed the former Hart and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/rossar01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Art Ross<\/a> Trophy winner as he missed half of training camp with an undisclosed injury. He then suffered another <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/2019\/11\/14\/pittsburgh-penguins-sidney-crosby-out-six-weeks-after-surgery\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">core muscle injury<\/a> that put him out of commission for a good chunk of the season.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means for the Future<\/h3>\n<p>Crosby joins <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/malkiev01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Evgeni Malkin<\/a><\/strong> and <strong>Zach Ashton-Reese<\/strong> as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/sports\/penguins\/2020\/09\/01\/sidney-crosby-wrist-surgery-penguins\/stories\/202009010098\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">other Penguins that had surgeries<\/a>. Malkin underwent elbow surgery that will sideline him three to four weeks. Ashton-Reese got left shoulder surgery that will keep him out for six months. He&#8217;s expected to be out for the start of training camp in November.<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins have already made changes this off-season as they acquired <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/kapanka01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kasperi Kapanen<\/a><\/strong> from the Toronto Maple Leafs. General manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/rutheji01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jim Rutherford<\/a> is expected to make a decision on if he&#8217;ll choose <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/j\/jarrytr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tristan Jarry<\/a><\/strong> or <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/murrama02.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matt Murray<\/a><\/strong> as the team&#8217;s top goaltender.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/11\/gettyimages-1180294171-594x594.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Penguins announced that centre and team captain Sidney Crosby is sidelined for three to four weeks after having wrist surgery. Pittsburgh officials announced the news early Tuesday morning. Sidney Crosby underwent successful arthroscopic wrist surgery. Recovery time is expected to be 3-4 weeks. Full details: https:\/\/t.co\/cg3K16jY7M pic.twitter.com\/YZ07tykXS5 &mdash; Pittsburgh Penguins (@penguins) September 1, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":61179,"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":[12,4547,34,4548],"tags":[544,5738,1509,2220,478,2569,955,44,140,477,1333],"class_list":["post-84587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-penguins","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","tag-evgeni-malkin","tag-hockey-news","tag-jim-rutherford","tag-kasperi-kapanen","tag-matt-murray","tag-news","tag-nhl-news","tag-pittsburgh-penguins","tag-sidney-crosby","tag-tristan-jarry","tag-zach-aston-reese"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84587","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=84587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}