{"id":11110,"date":"2013-12-07T21:16:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T21:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/penguins-d-orpik-leaves-game-on-stretcher\/"},"modified":"2013-12-07T21:16:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T21:16:00","slug":"penguins-d-orpik-leaves-game-on-stretcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/penguins-d-orpik-leaves-game-on-stretcher\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins D Orpik leaves game on stretcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston, MA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Brooks Orpik left Saturday&#8217;s game against the Bruins on a stretcher.<\/p>\n<p>During a scrum which was created by a clipping penalty to Boston&#8217;s Brad Marchand and kneeing call to Pittsburgh&#8217;s James Neal with 8:54 remaining in the first period, Bruins forward Shawn Thornton grabbed Orpik from behind and punched him twice, the second time as the veteran blueliner was on the ice.<\/p>\n<p>Medical personnel were immediately summoned, and the 33-year-old was completely immobilized before being loaded onto a stretcher and taken away for evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>Orpik was transported to Massachusetts General Hospital and is both alert and conscious.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the contest, Orpik levelled Bruins forward Loui Eriksson with a hard but clean check.<\/p>\n<p>The Boston College product has one goal and six assists in 30 games this season, his 11th NHL campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Thornton was given a match penalty for his effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston, MA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Brooks Orpik left Saturday&#8217;s game against the Bruins on a stretcher. During a scrum which was created by a clipping penalty to Boston&#8217;s Brad Marchand and kneeing call to Pittsburgh&#8217;s James Neal with 8:54 remaining in the first period, Bruins forward Shawn Thornton grabbed Orpik from behind and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}