{"id":99204,"date":"2021-01-27T18:03:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T23:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=99204"},"modified":"2021-03-11T23:04:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T04:04:43","slug":"st-louis-blues-forward-tyler-bozak-out-day-to-day-with-upper-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/01\/27\/st-louis-blues-forward-tyler-bozak-out-day-to-day-with-upper-body-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis Blues Forward Tyler Bozak Out Day-To-Day With Upper Body Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Blues announced that forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/bozakty01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tyler Bozak<\/a> will miss Thursday&#8217;s rematch against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/vegas-golden-knights\/\" target=\"_self\">Vegas Golden Knights<\/a> and is considered day-to-day with an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Craig Berube says Tyler Bozak (upper-body injury) won\u2019t play Thursday against Vegas. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/stlblues?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#stlblues<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; St. Louis Blues (@StLouisBlues) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StLouisBlues\/status\/1354532241053913088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 27, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Tyler Bozak Injured on Mark Stone Hit<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Big cheap shot by Mark Stone behind the play on Bozak, whistled two for interference. Blues bench not happy, Bozak appears to hit head on ice going down <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qgl4QkAUYs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/qgl4QkAUYs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NHL Review (@nhl_review) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nhl_review\/status\/1354271977607987207?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 27, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Tyler Bozak was injured when Mark Stone hit him in the second period of Tuesday&#8217;s game against the Golden Knights. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/stonema01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mark Stone<\/a> threw his shoulder into Bozak&#8217;s head, causing Bozak to fall to the ice. It looked like he hit his head on the ice and had a hard time getting up.\u00a0Stone got a two minute penalty for interference. Bozak didn&#8217;t return to the game.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, the NHL&#8217;s Department of Player Safety told Blues General Manager Doug Armstrong that Stone will not receive any supplemental discipline.<\/p>\n<p>So far this season, Bozak has two assists and two penalty minutes in seven games. His possession numbers are 44.7 percent Corsi and a relative Corsi of -3.0.<\/p>\n<p>Over his 12-year NHL career, Bozak has played for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/leafs\/\" target=\"_self\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> and the Blues. He has 162 goals and 272 assists for 434 points in 740 career games.<\/p>\n<p>In the postseason, he has 10 goals and 15 assists for 25 points in 52 career playoff games. He was a part of the Blues&#8217; 2019 Stanley Cup winning team.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means For The Future<\/h3>\n<p>Before his injury, Bozak was playing on the third line with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=hoffmmi02,hoffmmi01&amp;search=Mike+Hoffman&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mike Hoffman<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/thomaro01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert Thomas<\/a>. With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/blaissa01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sammy Blais<\/a> being a healthy scratch in the last game, it is likely he will take over for Bozak on the third line while he&#8217;s out.<\/p>\n<p>Blais has only played in two games this season, in part because he was suspended for two games for an illegal check to the head of Colorado Avalanche defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/toewsde01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Devon Toews<\/a>. He has yet to register a point.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, Blais had six goals and seven assists for 13 points in 40 regular-season games for the Blues and added one goal and three assists for four points in eight games in the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>While it will be good to get Blais back in the lineup, the Blues will certainly miss the experience Bozak brought to the line in Thursday&#8217;s rematch against the Golden Knights.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"nj4uoTfHQQJGSIO-qkY2Fg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/1298485498\" 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:'nj4uoTfHQQJGSIO-qkY2Fg',sig:'pPzCCe6ugHLmO7HKqEqKn373GpvPDa3dXg8s-s51qWE=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1298485498',caption: true ,tld:'ca',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Blues announced that forward Tyler Bozak will miss Thursday&#8217;s rematch against the Vegas Golden Knights and is considered day-to-day with an upper-body injury. Craig Berube says Tyler Bozak (upper-body injury) won\u2019t play Thursday against Vegas. #stlblues &mdash; St. Louis Blues (@StLouisBlues) January 27, 2021 Tyler Bozak Injured on Mark Stone Hit Big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2202,"featured_media":99222,"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":[32,6671,34,4548],"tags":[5738,1576,955,39,232],"class_list":["post-99204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blues","category-injuries","category-news","category-nhl","tag-hockey-news","tag-injury","tag-nhl-news","tag-st-louis-blues","tag-tyler-bozak"],"modified_by":"Colton Osmond, Dept Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99204","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\/2202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}