{"id":18899,"date":"2014-05-19T09:51:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T09:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/ovechkin-to-miss-russias-next-game-at-worlds\/"},"modified":"2014-05-19T09:51:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T09:51:00","slug":"ovechkin-to-miss-russias-next-game-at-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/ovechkin-to-miss-russias-next-game-at-worlds\/","title":{"rendered":"Ovechkin to miss Russia&#8217;s next game at Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minsk, Belarus (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Russian star Alex Ovechkin is expected to miss the round-robin finale of the 2014 World Hockey Championship following an open-ice hit in Sunday&#8217;s game against Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has already clinched first place in Group B and will play its final game of the preliminary round Tuesday against Belarus. The Russians will then play Thursday in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>Ovechkin was hurt in the third period of Russia&#8217;s 3-0 victory when he collided with Germany&#8217;s Marcus Kink. The hip check sent Ovechkin flying in the air and he appeared to hurt his right knee.<\/p>\n<p>Kink was not penalized on the play.<\/p>\n<p>Ovechkin, meanwhile, needed to be helped off the ice. He was hospitalized for a short time before returning to the team hotel on Sunday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minsk, Belarus (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Russian star Alex Ovechkin is expected to miss the round-robin finale of the 2014 World Hockey Championship following an open-ice hit in Sunday&#8217;s game against Germany. Russia has already clinched first place in Group B and will play its final game of the preliminary round Tuesday against Belarus. The Russians will [&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-18899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18899","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=18899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}