{"id":385961,"date":"2026-01-02T04:13:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T04:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/385961\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T04:13:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T04:13:14","slug":"blue-jackets-place-miles-wood-on-injured-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/385961\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jackets Place Miles Wood On Injured Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Blue Jackets placed winger\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/w\/woodmi01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-01_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Miles Wood<\/a>\u00a0on injured reserve Thursday, according to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mark_scheig\/status\/2006778479749247299\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mark Scheig of The Hockey Writers.<\/a> He\u2019s listed as week-to-week with the apparent left knee injury he sustained last night against the Devils, general manager Don Waddell said.<\/p>\n<p>Wood fell awkwardly on his leg after attempting a check on New Jersey winger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/palaton01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-01_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ond\u0159ej Pal\u00e1t<\/a>, struggling to put weight on it as he left the ice. Head coach Dean Evason wasn\u2019t particularly optimistic about Wood\u2019s status during his postgame media availability, but Waddell said Wood\u2019s early evaluation today indicated the \u201cabsolute worst was avoided.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wood has been found money for the Blue Jackets this season. Included as a salary dump by the Avalanche in the deal that brought them <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/coylech01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-01_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Charlie Coyle<\/a>\u00a0last offseason, the 30-year-old has contributed eight goals and 12 points in 32 games for Columbus. At 0.38 points per game, he\u2019s tracking for the third-most efficient offensive season of his 11-year career.<\/p>\n<p>No one will expect the bang-and-crash winger to keep up his career-best 15.7% shooting rate when he returns, but he\u2019d nonetheless been a valuable tertiary scoring piece for a Blue Jackets offense that ranks in the bottom half of the league at 2.92 goals per game. His speed also makes him an effective penalty killer, averaging more than a minute per game shorthanded, but his two-way play at even strength has left something to be desired at a -6 rating and 46.6 CF%.<\/p>\n<p>With Wood out for the foreseeable future,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/lundeis01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-01_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Isac Lundestr\u00f6m<\/a> on IR, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/monahse01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-01_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sean Monahan<\/a>\u00a0dealing with an undisclosed injury, Columbus is without a quarter of its regular forward lineup. With no healthy extras available, they\u2019ll be recalling a player under emergency conditions for Saturday\u2019s game against the Sabres if Monahan can\u2019t go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Blue Jackets placed winger\u00a0Miles Wood\u00a0on injured reserve Thursday, according to Mark Scheig of The Hockey Writers. He\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5108],"tags":[3644,5180,897,230,5179,5,4997,4,405],"class_list":{"0":"post-385961","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-columbus-blue-jackets","8":"tag-blue-jackets","9":"tag-bluejackets","10":"tag-columbus","11":"tag-columbus-blue-jackets","12":"tag-columbusbluejackets","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-miles-wood","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-transactions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115823562215167665","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}