{"id":323297,"date":"2025-12-02T18:39:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T18:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/323297\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T18:39:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T18:39:13","slug":"walker-to-miss-at-least-8-weeks-adding-to-blues-injury-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/323297\/","title":{"rendered":"Walker to miss at least 8 weeks, adding to Blues&#8217; injury woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/stl\/st-louis-blues\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Louis Blues<\/a> winger <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/3067860\/nathan-walker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nathan Walker<\/a> is expected to miss at least eight weeks because of an undisclosed upper-body injury, putting the struggling team short another forward for an extended period of time.<\/p>\n<p>Rookie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/5080171\/jimmy-snuggerud\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jimmy Snuggerud<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.com\/429b2e443a1f601ce5506cbabaa4edc5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">is out six weeks<\/a> to recover from surgery on his left wrist, which coach Jim Montgomery said Monday was scheduled to take place Tuesday. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/4392454\/alexey-toropchenko\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alexey Toropchenko<\/a> is considered week to week after <a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.com\/9b43b9fd1da1a4df56a23eae3f3b84bd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sustaining burns to his legs<\/a> in a home accident.<\/p>\n<p>St. Louis on Tuesday also made a trade of 25-year-old minor-league forwards, sending Nikita Alexandrov to Los Angeles for Akil Thomas. The Blues said Thomas would report to Springfield of the American Hockey League.<\/p>\n<p>Walker, 31, was the first player from Australia to make the NHL when he debuted with Washington in 2017. He won the Stanley Cup with the Capitals later that season.<\/p>\n<p>In 25 games this season, Walker has three goals and six assists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St. Louis Blues winger Nathan Walker is expected to miss at least eight weeks because of an undisclosed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-323297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}