{"id":546829,"date":"2026-04-08T05:37:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T05:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/546829\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T05:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T05:37:13","slug":"hurricanes-lose-jalen-chatfield-to-injury-everything-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/546829\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricanes Lose Jalen Chatfield to Injury: Everything We Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Tuesday\u2019s game against the Boston Bruins, the Carolina Hurricanes\u2019 top-pairing defenseman, Jalen Chatfield, left the game due to a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>With just under five minutes played in the third period, Chatfield departed after a short, 22-second shift \u2013 a shift that ended early due to a power play drawn by Nikolaj Ehlers. Soon after, he was officially ruled out.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the game, Chatfield did not block any shots and only received one registered hit, which was dealt by Alex Steeves and occurred in the early second period. There didn\u2019t appear to be any notable stumbles from the Hurricanes blueliner in the nearly 14 minutes he played.<\/p>\n<p>After the game, Rod Brind\u2019Amour was asked if he had an update on the status of Chatfield.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t really have anything,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/scl\/fo\/vy6uk15nr46r4weik2nls\/ABz8PZsdiwljVWrlrz32V9A\/Postgame?dl=0&amp;rlkey=wjbcsrv7zi9qhbcm0mwg3ub9l&amp;subfolder_nav_tracking=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>. \u201cThat\u2019s the problem, not the problem \u2013 everyone\u2019s got to deal with it. But, you know, you worry this time of year going into these games, it\u2019s tough. So, I don\u2019t know. I won\u2019t have an update, though.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The absence of any player due to injury is not something any team would want, especially so close to the postseason. However, it is an even bigger blow considering the role Chatfield has played for the Hurricanes this season, becoming half of the top-pairing alongside Jaccob Slavin after Brent Burns\u2019 departure over the summer.<\/p>\n<p>Only time will tell whether he\u2019ll be back in the lineup for any of the games down the stretch.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img alt=\"avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775626633_511_ab783896b73f675bc93cb7c5b0a070ee9f363e9b6b751c7e80dcfd1fd7431eb5.png\"  class=\"avatar avatar-70 photo\" height=\"70\" width=\"70\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\tRachel  Barkley  is  a  beat  writer  covering  the  Carolina  Hurricanes  for  Carolina  Hockey  Now  on  Sportsnaut.  Painting  stories  with  &#8230; More about <a class=\"more-bio\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/author\/rbarkley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Barkley<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Tuesday\u2019s game against the Boston Bruins, the Carolina Hurricanes\u2019 top-pairing defenseman, Jalen Chatfield, left the game due&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5107],"tags":[194,29,5176,5,195,25359,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-546829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-hurricanes","8":"tag-carolina","9":"tag-carolina-hurricanes","10":"tag-carolinahurricanes","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-hurricanes","13":"tag-injury-news","14":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116367475378937102","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546829","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=546829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}