{"id":542639,"date":"2026-04-05T20:22:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T20:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/542639\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T20:22:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T20:22:33","slug":"blue-jackets-damon-severson-out-week-to-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/542639\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jackets’ Damon Severson Out Week-To-Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

April 3:\u00a0After additional evaluation, Severson won\u2019t be an option this season again at all. He underwent shoulder surgery yesterday and will not be an option to play again in 2025-26, per a team release<\/a> Friday. It\u2019s unclear if his return timeline could drag into training camp in the fall.<\/p>\n

March 27: Blue Jackets defenseman\u00a0Damon Severson<\/a>\u00a0is out week-to-week with the upper-body injury he sustained in last night\u2019s loss to the Canadiens, head coach Rick Bowness said Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Severson scored Columbus\u2019 only goal in the 2-1 regulation loss before taking a hard hit from\u00a0Zachary Bolduc<\/a>, 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

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 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

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

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

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<\/a> \u2013 and can step in as a second-unit power play quarterback when needed.<\/p>\n

Columbus doesn\u2019t have an extra righty sitting around on the active roster. Youngster\u00a0Denton Mateychuk<\/a>, who\u2019s gotten comfortable playing his offside on a pairing next to\u00a0Ivan Provorov<\/a> at points over the last couple of years, will shift back there for the time being.\u00a0Egor Zamula<\/a>, 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":"April 3:\u00a0After additional evaluation, Severson won\u2019t be an option this season again at all. He underwent shoulder surgery…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5108],"tags":[3644,5180,897,230,5179,8744,5,30,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-542639","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-damon-severson","14":"tag-hockey","15":"tag-newsstand","16":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116353967437661673","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542639","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=542639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}