{"id":526902,"date":"2026-03-28T03:20:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T03:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/526902\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T03:20:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T03:20:31","slug":"blue-jackets-damon-severson-out-week-to-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/526902\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jackets\u2019 Damon Severson Out Week-To-Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Jackets defenseman\u00a0Damon Severson\u00a0is out week-to-week with the upper-body injury he sustained in last night\u2019s loss to the Canadiens, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JacketsInsider\/status\/2037594405834576279?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">head coach Rick Bowness said Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Severson scored Columbus\u2019 only goal in the 2-1 regulation loss before taking a hard hit from\u00a0Zachary Bolduc, who scored the eventual game-winner, with 8:04 remaining in the third period. He skated off and immediately went to the room, favoring his left shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jackets obviously lost a bit of ground in the Eastern Conference playoff race with the loss, but their strong underlying numbers still leave them with a 77.9% chance of making the playoffs, per <a href=\"https:\/\/moneypuck.com\/predictions.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MoneyPuck<\/a>, despite having the league\u2019s third-most difficult remaining strength of schedule. At 87 points, they\u2019re tied with the Islanders for third place in the Metropolitan Division but have a game in hand, winning the tiebreaker and pushing the Isles to the second wild-card slot.<\/p>\n<p>That playoff likelihood drops a bit without Severson, who is having a resurgent campaign in Columbus. The 31-year-old righty had a pair of underwhelming seasons after signing an eight-year, $50MM deal in 2023 as part of a sign-and-trade with the Devils, even sitting as a healthy scratch for a few games last season, but has re-emerged as a does-it-all top-four piece with the best possession numbers of his career.<\/p>\n<p>Through 71 games, Severson has an 8-24\u201332 scoring line while averaging 21:04 of ice time per game. Coupled with a career-best +18 rating, it\u2019s his best offensive showing as a Blue Jacket and the third-best of his 12-year career on a per-game basis.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s what Severson has done to drive play at even strength, though, that has made him especially valuable. The Blue Jackets are controlling 54.4% of shot attempts at even strength with him on the ice \u2013 a number that even eclipses\u00a0Zach Werenski \u2013 and can step in as a second-unit power play quarterback when needed.<\/p>\n<p>Columbus doesn\u2019t have an extra righty sitting around on the active roster. Youngster\u00a0Denton Mateychuk, who\u2019s gotten comfortable playing his offside on a pairing next to\u00a0Ivan Provorov at points over the last couple of years, will shift back there for the time being.\u00a0Egor Zamula, a healthy scratch in nine of the Jackets\u2019 last 10 games, will presumably step back into the lineup in a bottom-pairing role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blue Jackets defenseman\u00a0Damon Severson\u00a0is out week-to-week with the upper-body injury he sustained in last night\u2019s loss to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5108],"tags":[3644,5180,897,230,5179,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-526902","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-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116304650210609057","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526902","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=526902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}