{"id":17959,"date":"2014-04-29T18:42:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T18:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/flyers-d-grossmann-has-successful-ankle-surgery\/"},"modified":"2014-04-29T18:42:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T18:42:00","slug":"flyers-d-grossmann-has-successful-ankle-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/flyers-d-grossmann-has-successful-ankle-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Flyers D Grossmann has successful ankle surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Nicklas Grossmann underwent successful surgery Tuesday to repair tendon damage in his right ankle and will be sidelined for the next 8-to-10 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Flyers general manager Paul Holmgren made the announcement prior to Game 6 of Philadelphia&#8217;s Eastern Conference quarterfinal series against the New York Rangers, who lead the best-of-seven set 3-2.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nicklas had successful surgery this morning to repair tendon damage in his right ankle suffered in Game 4 of this playoff series,&#8221; Holmgren remarked Tuesday. &#8220;Nicklas will be out of action for 8-10 weeks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Grossmann went into the boards awkwardly early in the second period of Game 4 and did not return. He averaged 19:10 of ice-time and recorded six blocked shots over Philadelphia&#8217;s first three playoff games.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old blueliner registered one goal and 13 assists over 78 regular- season contests in 2013-14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia, PA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Nicklas Grossmann underwent successful surgery Tuesday to repair tendon damage in his right ankle and will be sidelined for the next 8-to-10 weeks. Flyers general manager Paul Holmgren made the announcement prior to Game 6 of Philadelphia&#8217;s Eastern Conference quarterfinal series against the New York Rangers, who lead [&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-17959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17959","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=17959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}