{"id":2172,"date":"2013-07-09T15:12:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T15:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/report-horton-to-undergo-shoulder-surgery-out-4-6-months\/"},"modified":"2013-07-09T15:12:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T15:12:00","slug":"report-horton-to-undergo-shoulder-surgery-out-4-6-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/report-horton-to-undergo-shoulder-surgery-out-4-6-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Horton to undergo shoulder surgery, out 4-6 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Columbus, OH (Sports Network) &#8211; Columbus Blue Jackets prized free agency acquisition Nathan Horton will reportedly undergo shoulder surgery next week in Boston.<\/p>\n<p>The Columbus Dispatch reports that Horton will need 4-to-6 months to recover.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old right wing signed a seven-year deal last Friday worth a reported $37.1 million.<\/p>\n<p>Horton, a former Bruin, left Game 1 of the 2013 Stanley Cup Finals and did not return after tangling with Chicago Blackhawks defenseman Niklas Hjalmarsson in front of the Chicago net.<\/p>\n<p>Horton reportedly suffered a left shoulder subluxation on April 20 fighting with Jarome Iginla, who signed with Boston last Friday after finishing last season with Pittsburgh. The injury caused Horton&#8217;s shoulder to pop out of place at points throughout the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, Horton posted 13 goals and nine assists in 43 games. In his nine- year career with the Florida Panthers and Bruins, the 2003 third-overall pick has 198 goals and 402 points in 591 games.<\/p>\n<p>Horton helped lead Boston to the 2011 Stanley Cup and put up 15 goals and 36 points over 43 career playoff games.<\/p>\n<p>The day the surgery will take place has not been determined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Columbus, OH (Sports Network) &#8211; Columbus Blue Jackets prized free agency acquisition Nathan Horton will reportedly undergo shoulder surgery next week in Boston. The Columbus Dispatch reports that Horton will need 4-to-6 months to recover. The 28-year-old right wing signed a seven-year deal last Friday worth a reported $37.1 million. Horton, a former Bruin, left [&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-2172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172","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=2172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}