{"id":538675,"date":"2026-04-03T16:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T16:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/538675\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T16:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T16:01:12","slug":"blue-jackets-defenceman-damon-severson-out-for-season-with-shoulder-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/538675\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jackets defenceman Damon Severson out for season with shoulder injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/damon-severson\/8d07a54d-7752-4de0-a522-a53fbdf7bacd\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"8d07a54d-7752-4de0-a522-a53fbdf7bacd\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Damon Severson<\/a> is out for the season with a shoulder injury requiring surgery, the team <a href=\"http:\/\/Blue Jackets defenceman Damon Severson out for season with shoulder injury\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Severson suffered the injury on March 26 against the Montreal Canadiens and has not played since.<\/p>\n<p>He finished his season with eight goals and 24 assists over 71 games while averaging 21:04 in ice time, which ranks third on the team.<\/p>\n<p>Severson, the 31-year-old from Melville, Sask., has played 855 games for his career between the Blue Jackets and New Jersey Devils.<\/p>\n<p>He exits for Columbus at a crucial time, with the team tied in the second wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jackets return to action Saturday against the Winnipeg Jets (Sportsnet, Sportsnet+, 7 p.m. ET \/ 4 p.m. PT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defenceman Damon Severson is out for the season with a shoulder injury requiring surgery, the team announced on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5108],"tags":[3644,5180,897,230,5179,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-538675","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\/116341616604614912","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538675","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=538675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}