{"id":11441,"date":"2013-12-13T15:46:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T15:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wings-g-howard-out-with-mcl-sprain\/"},"modified":"2013-12-13T15:46:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T15:46:00","slug":"wings-g-howard-out-with-mcl-sprain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wings-g-howard-out-with-mcl-sprain\/","title":{"rendered":"Wings G Howard out with MCL sprain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit, MI (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Detroit Red Wings goaltender Jimmy Howard is expected to miss the next 2-to-4 weeks with a sprained medial collateral ligament in his left knee.<\/p>\n<p>Wings general manager Ken Holland confirmed to the Detroit Free Press on Friday that the Maine product injured himself during a Wednesday practice session in Tampa. Jonas Gustavsson got the start in a 2-1 shootout loss to the Lightning on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The injury is likely to jeopardize Howard&#8217;s participation in the Winter Classic against the Maple Leafs on Jan. 1 at Michigan Stadium, and will also call into question his selection for Team USA at the upcoming Sochi Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Howard is just 6-8-7 with a 2.65 goals-against average and two shutouts in 21 games this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Wings also made roster moves Friday, recalling forwards Patrick Eaves and Luke Glendening from Grand Rapids of the AHL and assigning forward Cory Emmerton to the Griffins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit, MI (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Detroit Red Wings goaltender Jimmy Howard is expected to miss the next 2-to-4 weeks with a sprained medial collateral ligament in his left knee. Wings general manager Ken Holland confirmed to the Detroit Free Press on Friday that the Maine product injured himself during a Wednesday practice session in Tampa. Jonas [&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-11441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11441","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=11441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}