{"id":16090,"date":"2014-03-14T13:27:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T13:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/canucks-kesler-sidelined-with-sprained-knee\/"},"modified":"2014-03-14T13:27:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T13:27:00","slug":"canucks-kesler-sidelined-with-sprained-knee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/canucks-kesler-sidelined-with-sprained-knee\/","title":{"rendered":"Canucks&#8217; Kesler sidelined with sprained knee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Vancouver Canucks center Ryan Kesler has a sprained knee and is expected to be sidelined for a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Canucks coach John Tortorella made the announcement Friday during the club&#8217;s morning skate prior to a game against the Washington Capitals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nothing we can do about that, upside is that it gives others an opportunity,&#8221; said Tortorella.<\/p>\n<p>Kesler was hurt during the second period of Wednesday&#8217;s game against Winnipeg when he took a knee-on-knee hit from the Jets&#8217; Jim Slater.<\/p>\n<p>The subject of numerous trade rumors prior to last week&#8217;s deadline, Kesler is Vancouver&#8217;s leading goal scorer with 22 and his 40 points trail only Henrik Sedin&#8217;s 41 for the team lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Vancouver Canucks center Ryan Kesler has a sprained knee and is expected to be sidelined for a couple of weeks. Canucks coach John Tortorella made the announcement Friday during the club&#8217;s morning skate prior to a game against the Washington Capitals. &#8220;Nothing we can do about that, upside is that it [&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-16090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16090","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=16090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}