{"id":11195,"date":"2013-12-08T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/lecavalier-out-a-month-with-fractured-back\/"},"modified":"2013-12-08T17:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T17:59:00","slug":"lecavalier-out-a-month-with-fractured-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/lecavalier-out-a-month-with-fractured-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecavalier out a month with fractured back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8212; Vincent Lecavalier has run into some bad luck ever since the Philadelphia Flyers signed him to a $22.5 million, 5- year deal this summer.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the club announced that he will miss up to a month with a non- displaced fracture in his lower back.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He had an x-ray in Dallas and we found something on the x-ray that didn&#8217;t look right. [We] got him back to Philadelphia this morning just to get him back in our own doctor&#8217;s hands and he had an MRI,&#8221; said Flyers GM Paul Holmgren. &#8220;We found a non-displaced fracture in his lower back. We&#8217;re going to treat it when we can as aggressively as we have to right now. We told him to rest for a few days to get some of the discomfort out and we&#8217;ll go from there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lecavalier missed his third straight game on Saturday, a 5-1 setback to the Stars in Dallas, due to what was originally deemed to be back spasms.<\/p>\n<p>The native of Montreal is the co-leader on the Flyers with nine goals and tied for third in points with 14 over 22 games this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8212; Vincent Lecavalier has run into some bad luck ever since the Philadelphia Flyers signed him to a $22.5 million, 5- year deal this summer. On Sunday, the club announced that he will miss up to a month with a non- displaced fracture in his lower back. &#8220;He had an x-ray in [&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-11195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11195","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=11195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}