{"id":98705,"date":"2021-01-22T12:04:23","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T17:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=98705"},"modified":"2021-03-11T23:04:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T04:04:52","slug":"montreal-canadiens-lose-joel-armia-paul-byron-to-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/01\/22\/montreal-canadiens-lose-joel-armia-paul-byron-to-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Canadiens Lose Joel Armia and Paul Byron to Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/canadiens\/\" target=\"_self\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a> enjoyed a 7-3 win over the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/canucks\/\" target=\"_self\">Vancouver Canucks<\/a> on Thursday night. However, it came at a price. Coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/j\/juliecl01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Claude Julien<\/a> announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/a\/armiajo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joel Armia<\/a> had suffered a concussion after a hit to the head from Canucks defender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/myersty01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tyler Myers<\/a>. He also stated that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/byronpa01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paul Byron<\/a> would be day-to-day with a foot injury after taking a slap shot from teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/w\/webersh01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shea Weber<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Paul Byron is day to day, per Claude Julien.<\/p>\n<p>Armia, obviously, is out for a while.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u0410rpon Basu (@ArponBasu) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArponBasu\/status\/1352496180496920576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 22, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Canadiens Lose Both Joel Armia and Paul Byron to Injury During Incredible Win<\/h2>\n<p>Joel Armia sustained the injury late in the third period. Armia was trying to corral the puck when Myers blindsided him with a hit to the head. He left the game immediately and did not return. Myers was assessed a five-minute major for the illegal check to the head after the officials elected to review the play.<\/p>\n<p>Armia was having an outstanding game before being injured, as he scored two goals and added two assists for the first four-point game of his career. He now has five points in five games to start the season. Armia is expected to be out indefinitely. It&#8217;s possible we see Myers get served with a suspension due to the hit.<\/p>\n<p>Byron on the other hand is only listed as day-to-day after taking some friendly fire from Shea Weber. Byron went to the bench, did return for a quick shift but left the game again.<\/p>\n<p>So far this season, Byron has recorded two points in five games while playing on the fourth line next to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/e\/evansja02.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jake Evans<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/lehkoar01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Artturi Lehkonen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Two Veterans Looking to get an Opportunity with the Recent Injuries<\/h3>\n<p>Though no one wants anyone to suffer an injury, especially a teammate, recently signed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/perryco01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Corey Perry<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/f\/frolimi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Frolik<\/a> will certainly look to take advantage of the opportunity. Both were signed to identical one year $750,000 deals before the season and provide solid depth scoring for the Canadiens.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadiens will be back in action once again against the Vancouver Canucks on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"5aRWshWTSltk03J8rN3gBA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/1230716404\" 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:'5aRWshWTSltk03J8rN3gBA',sig:'aPOeFpno-u5seGppdnBIkHxgBsOQ_BW-qPvCliuwN6I=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1230716404',caption: true ,tld:'ca',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Montreal Canadiens enjoyed a 7-3 win over the Vancouver Canucks on Thursday night. However, it came at a price. Coach Claude Julien announced that Joel Armia had suffered a concussion after a hit to the head from Canucks defender Tyler Myers. He also stated that Paul Byron would be day-to-day with a foot injury [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2506,"featured_media":98712,"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":[4547,6671,7,34,4548],"tags":[122,1576,1425,2806,152,955,882],"class_list":["post-98705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hockey","category-injuries","category-canadiens","category-news","category-nhl","tag-corey-perry","tag-injury","tag-joel-armia","tag-michael-frolik","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-nhl-news","tag-paul-byron"],"modified_by":"Colton Osmond, Dept Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98705","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\/2506"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}