{"id":11523,"date":"2013-12-16T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/pens-place-letang-on-ir-recall-samuelsson\/"},"modified":"2013-12-16T10:10:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T10:10:00","slug":"pens-place-letang-on-ir-recall-samuelsson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/pens-place-letang-on-ir-recall-samuelsson\/","title":{"rendered":"Pens place Letang on IR, recall Samuelsson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh, PA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Pittsburgh Penguins have placed defenseman Kris Letang on injured reserve because of an undisclosed problem.<\/p>\n<p>Letang missed Saturday&#8217;s game against Detroit. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review said he suffered an upper body injury during Friday&#8217;s game against New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>In 24 games this season, Letang has six goals and five assists for 11 points. He missed the first nine games with a lower body injury.<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins recalled defenseman Philip Samuelsson from their American Hockey League affiliate in Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton. Samuelsson, the son of former Pens blueliner Ulf, was a second-round pick in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh also recalled forward Harry Zolnierczyk from Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton with forward Evgeni Malkin&#8217;s status unclear following an injury Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh, PA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Pittsburgh Penguins have placed defenseman Kris Letang on injured reserve because of an undisclosed problem. Letang missed Saturday&#8217;s game against Detroit. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review said he suffered an upper body injury during Friday&#8217;s game against New Jersey. In 24 games this season, Letang has six goals and five assists for [&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-11523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11523","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=11523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}