{"id":1314,"date":"2013-03-26T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T17:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/penguins-letang-ready-to-return\/"},"modified":"2013-03-26T17:08:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T17:08:00","slug":"penguins-letang-ready-to-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/penguins-letang-ready-to-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins&#8217; Letang ready to return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh, PA (Sports Network) &#8211; The Pittsburgh Penguins have activated Kris Letang from injured reserve, with the standout defenseman slated to play in Tuesday&#8217;s home game against the Montreal Canadiens.<\/p>\n<p>Letang had missed Pittsburgh&#8217;s last three contests with a lower-body injury sustained during a win over Boston on Mar. 17.<\/p>\n<p>To make room on the active roster, the Penguins reassigned defenseman Simon Despres to Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton of the American Hockey League. The rookie has totaled two goals, five assists and a plus-10 rating over 24 games with Pittsburgh this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Eastern Conference-leading Penguins will take a 12-game winning streak into Tuesday&#8217;s clash with Montreal, currently tied with Boston atop the Northeast Division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh, PA (Sports Network) &#8211; The Pittsburgh Penguins have activated Kris Letang from injured reserve, with the standout defenseman slated to play in Tuesday&#8217;s home game against the Montreal Canadiens. Letang had missed Pittsburgh&#8217;s last three contests with a lower-body injury sustained during a win over Boston on Mar. 17. To make room on the [&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-1314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314","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=1314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}