{"id":20618,"date":"2014-07-09T09:35:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T09:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/report-crosby-to-have-wrist-surgery\/"},"modified":"2014-07-09T21:20:04","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T21:20:04","slug":"report-crosby-to-have-wrist-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/report-crosby-to-have-wrist-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Crosby has wrist injury, weighing surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh, PA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Pittsburgh Penguins captain and reigning NHL MVP Sidney Crosby is scheduled to have arthroscopic surgery on his right wrist in the near future, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.<\/p>\n<p>The paper cited a source as saying the procedure to repair damage that hindered Crosby&#8217;s play during the playoffs &#8220;is not major.&#8221; Crosby is not expected to miss any time next season, the paper reported.<\/p>\n<p>Penguins general manager Jim Rutherford issued a statement on Wednesday confirming that the 2013-14 Hart Trophy recipient is dealing with an injury, though the team said a final determination on a surgical procedure has yet to be made.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sid is continuing to get medical advice to determine the best path moving forward, including the possibility of arthroscopic surgery,&#8221; said Rutherford. &#8220;No final decision has been made on surgery at this point. We expect to have a decision by early next week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Crosby captured his second career Hart Trophy after leading the NHL with 104 points in 80 games this past season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh, PA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Pittsburgh Penguins captain and reigning NHL MVP Sidney Crosby is scheduled to have arthroscopic surgery on his right wrist in the near future, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The paper cited a source as saying the procedure to repair damage that hindered Crosby&#8217;s play during the playoffs &#8220;is not major.&#8221; Crosby [&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-20618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20618","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=20618"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20649,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20618\/revisions\/20649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}