{"id":21777,"date":"2014-08-06T15:41:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T15:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/no-1-pick-ekblad-dealing-with-concussion\/"},"modified":"2014-08-06T15:41:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T15:41:00","slug":"no-1-pick-ekblad-dealing-with-concussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/no-1-pick-ekblad-dealing-with-concussion\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 1 pick Ekblad dealing with concussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calgary, AB (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; 2014 No. 1 overall draft pick Aaron Ekblad sustained a concussion Tuesday while playing for Team Canada&#8217;s World Juniors team in a exhibition game against the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the injury, both Hockey Canada and the Florida Panthers, who own Ekblad&#8217;s NHL rights, have decided to hold the young defenseman out of the remainder of the summer development camp for next year&#8217;s World Juniors.<\/p>\n<p>Panthers general manager Dale Tallon does expect the 18-year-old Ekblad to be fully cleared to participate in the Panthers&#8217; training camp next month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have been in communication with Team Canada and have mutually agreed to hold Aaron out for the remainder of the summer development camp, as a precautionary measure,&#8221; said Tallon in a statement. &#8220;We will closely monitor Aaron&#8217;s health for the remainder of the offseason and expect him to be ready for our rookie camp in mid-September.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ekblad, the first defenseman to be taken with the top overall choice of the NHL Draft since St. Louis selected Erik Johnson No. 1 in 2006, recorded 23 goals and 53 points in just 58 regular-season games for the Barrie Colts of the Ontario Hockey League in 2013-14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calgary, AB (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; 2014 No. 1 overall draft pick Aaron Ekblad sustained a concussion Tuesday while playing for Team Canada&#8217;s World Juniors team in a exhibition game against the Czech Republic. Due to the injury, both Hockey Canada and the Florida Panthers, who own Ekblad&#8217;s NHL rights, have decided to hold the young defenseman [&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-21777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21777","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=21777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}