{"id":495892,"date":"2026-03-10T04:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T04:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/495892\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T04:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T04:31:11","slug":"jaden-schwartz-gets-brutal-injury-update-amid-playoff-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/495892\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaden Schwartz gets brutal injury update amid playoff push"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Jaden Schwartz injury on Saturday night<\/a> is one that every hockey fan hates to see, not only Seattle Kraken<\/a> supporters. The forward was moving through center ice during the team’s 7-4 loss to the Ottawa Senators and was struck in the face by an errant skate. The skate caused Schwartz to fall to the ice in quite a bit of discomfort, and the team announced<\/a> on Monday that he’ll be out indefinitely with an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n

It comes at the worst possible time for the Kraken, who are in the middle of a playoff push in the Western Conference. The Pacific Division has been weak this season, but Seattle can’t afford to lose any veterans who may give them a scoring punch as the postseason approaches. Schwartz was averaging 0.5 points per game this season, and has been over that mark in 10 of his last 11 seasons.<\/p>\n

The good news for Jaden Schwartz is that, despite an extensive injury history, this is one of his only recorded upper-body issues. Most of the injuries that slowed him down over the past few seasons have been lower-body, which makes it hopeful that he’ll make a quicker recovery before the end of the regular season.<\/p>\n

The Kraken have now lost two games in a row and are just one point up for the last wild card position. They decided not to be sellers at the deadline and even signed captain Jordan Eberle to a contract extension<\/a>.<\/a> Still, that\u00a0decision could backfire if the San Jose Sharks, Los Angeles Kings, Nashville Predators, or Winnipeg Jets find a way to pass them off and steal a playoff spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jaden Schwartz injury on Saturday night is one that every hockey fan hates to see, not only…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[5,4188,4,7901,2686,234,5318],"class_list":{"0":"post-495892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-kraken","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-kraken","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-nhl-injury","12":"tag-seattle","13":"tag-seattle-kraken","14":"tag-seattlekraken"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116203008054521573","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495892","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=495892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}