Seeler will return to the lineup Saturday against the Chicago Blackhawks after missing the past 11 games with a lower-body injury.
Injured on March 4 against the St. Louis Blues, Nick Seeler will return to the lineup against the Chicago Blackhawks on Saturday. He missed the past 11 games with a lower-body injury after a slap shot by Blues defenseman Colton Parayko went off his left ankle.
“I think getting back to my game as quickly as I can is probably the best thing for me, and that includes blocking shots,” said Seeler, who did get credited with a blocked shot on the injury. “But just playing simple and playing my game and hopefully get back to that tonight.” The defenseman will have some extra padding on his ankle to try and avoid a reoccurrence. He has another layer of the hard exterior of a hockey boot — a shot blocker — around the bony protuberance and a pad that goes up higher, around the top of the skate.Seeler was paired up with Erik Johnson during the team’s morning skate. It’ll be a shift for Seeler who had a mainstay on his left for most of the season.
But the loss of Seeler for a good stretch was magnified in two spots. While the team remained among the league’s best in terms of shots allowed, hits, and blocked shots, they have struggled on the penalty kill and in goals against. With Seeler, in the first 63 games of the season, the penalty kill was No. 1 in the NHL. Without him, it is 31st . In that same time frame, the goals-against average was the 10th best to start, and without him, it has jumped to 4.00..
Seeler will come in handy as the team tries to seal a postseason berth across the final eight games of the season. It begins on Saturday night when they try to control rookie phenom Connor Bedard and the Blackhawks.“You can get momentum in a lot of ways and I think Seels is really good at grabbing momentum back with the way he plays hard; whether it’s a big hit, big penalty kill, block shot, whatever it is,” saidwill start in net. ...
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