{"id":11352,"date":"2013-12-11T19:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/leafs-lupul-returns-from-groin-injury\/"},"modified":"2013-12-11T19:01:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T19:01:00","slug":"leafs-lupul-returns-from-groin-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/leafs-lupul-returns-from-groin-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Leafs&#8217; Lupul returns from groin injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto, ON (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Toronto Maple Leafs forward Joffrey Lupul will return to the lineup on Wednesday, apparently recovered from a groin injury.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been challenging. I&#8217;ve never had something like this before,&#8221; said the oft-injured Toronto forward, who has had to deal with a blood infection and a concussion among other issues which have sidetracked his 10-year career. &#8220;I think things went really well. We&#8217;re happy with the strength I have back in there. Now, it&#8217;s a matter of taking care of things on a day-to-day basis and making sure there&#8217;s no setbacks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lupul has missed the last seven games with the ailment, deemed a groin strain, which struck him in the last week of November in a game against the Columbus Blue Jackets. He had been expected to miss around two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to this latest malady, Lupul was tied for third among Toronto players with eight goals and amassed 15 points in 22 contests in 2013-14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto, ON (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Toronto Maple Leafs forward Joffrey Lupul will return to the lineup on Wednesday, apparently recovered from a groin injury. &#8220;It&#8217;s been challenging. I&#8217;ve never had something like this before,&#8221; said the oft-injured Toronto forward, who has had to deal with a blood infection and a concussion among other issues which have [&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-11352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11352","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=11352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}