{"id":8519,"date":"2017-04-07T19:19:28","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T23:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=8519"},"modified":"2017-04-07T19:19:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T23:19:28","slug":"anaheim-ducks-cam-fowler-2-6-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2017\/04\/07\/anaheim-ducks-cam-fowler-2-6-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Anaheim Ducks Cam Fowler Out 2-6 Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nhl.com\/ducks\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anaheim Ducks<\/a> general manager <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=murrabo02,murrabo01&amp;search=Bob+Murray&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bob Murray<\/a><\/strong> announced that defenseman <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/f\/fowleca01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cam Fowler<\/a><\/strong> will miss the start of the Stanley Cup Playoffs with a knee injury.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Cam Fowler is out after an ugly knee injury. Awful news for him and the Ducks before the playoffs. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jG6dVHi3E0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/jG6dVHi3E0<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cP1JdJadGX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/cP1JdJadGX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SB Nation NHL (@SBNationNHL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SBNationNHL\/status\/849480571088760833\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Anaheim Ducks Cam Fowler Out 2-6 Weeks<\/h2>\n<p>Fowler suffered the injury on Tuesday night against the <a href=\"http:\/\/nhl.com\/flames\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Calgary Flames<\/a>. He needed to be helped off the ice after a knee-on-knee collision\u00a0with Flames captain <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/giordma01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mark Giordano<\/a><\/strong> at 6:09 in the third period.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Murray: &#8220;When I saw the hit, your heart goes in your mouth. We may have gotten a little bit of a break.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 x &#8211; Anaheim Ducks (@AnaheimDucks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnaheimDucks\/status\/850163830969712640\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 7, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Although the injury is not as severe as many first thought, the Ducks will miss their top defenseman. Cam Fowler leads all Anaheim defensemen in ice time and plays a significant role on the club&#8217;s special teams units.<\/p>\n<p>Murray\u00a0said that Fowler didn&#8217;t tear any ligaments in the injury, but has &#8220;something like&#8221; a sprain. The 25-year old has dealt with knee problems before. He stopped wearing braces on both his knees with the GM&#8217;s\u00a0permission.<\/p>\n<p>However, Giordano was not penalized on the play and the league has decided not to apply any additional discipline. Murray was perplexed by the decision.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Anaheim Ducks GM Bob Murray on Mark Giordano&#39;s hit on Cam Fowler, who will miss at least the start of the playoffs: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qpA8XRF9bY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/qpA8XRF9bY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Greg Beacham (@gregbeacham) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gregbeacham\/status\/850166667208302592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 7, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>After the game <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/ducks-defenceman-cam-fowler-2-6-weeks-knee-knee\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Giordano said<\/a>, &#8221; I think our legs collided. I hope he&#8217;s OK. You don&#8217;t like to see guys get hurt. There was no intent to hurt him there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cam Fowler had 11 goals and 28 assists (39 points), one point away from his career high of 40, which he reached in his rookie season.<\/p>\n<p>Anaheim defeated the Calgary Flames 3-1 on Tuesday night and shutout the <a href=\"http:\/\/nhl.com\/blackhawks\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chicago Blackhawks<\/a> 4-0 on Thursday night. They lead the <a href=\"http:\/\/nhl.com\/standings\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pacific Division <\/a>with 103 points.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color:#fff;display:inline-block;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#a7a7a7;font-size:11px;width:100%;max-width:594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding:0;margin:0;text-align:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/656480218\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow:hidden;position:relative;height:0;padding:65.656566% 0 0 0;width:100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/656480218?et=jpb_sZbKSY50YWQZWXfpjg&#038;tld=ca&#038;viewMoreLink=on&#038;sig=CQsbQJpHRM2eaRNA5gBN4IElk8XBPTCkxynwfB_6Prs=&#038;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"390\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"display:inline-block;position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;margin:0;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin:0;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anaheim Ducks general manager Bob Murray announced that defenseman Cam Fowler will miss the start of the Stanley Cup Playoffs with a knee injury. Cam Fowler is out after an ugly knee injury. Awful news for him and the Ducks before the playoffs. https:\/\/t.co\/jG6dVHi3E0 pic.twitter.com\/cP1JdJadGX \u2014 SB Nation NHL (@SBNationNHL) April 5, 2017 Anaheim Ducks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1859,"featured_media":8526,"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":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,34],"tags":[118,656,1518,38,1109],"class_list":["post-8519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ducks","category-news","tag-anaheim-ducks","tag-cam-fowler","tag-mark-giordano","tag-nhl","tag-stanley-cup-playoffs"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8519","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\/1859"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}