{"id":23895,"date":"2014-09-24T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/rangers-stepan-sidelined-with-fractured-leg\/"},"modified":"2014-09-24T23:00:06","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T23:00:06","slug":"rangers-stepan-sidelined-with-fractured-leg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/rangers-stepan-sidelined-with-fractured-leg\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers&#8217; Stepan sidelined with fractured leg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; New York Rangers center Derek Stepan suffered a non-displaced fractured fibula during practice on Wednesday and will be sidelined 4-to-6 weeks, the team announced.<\/p>\n<p>NorthJersey.com reported earlier that Stepan was hurt during an on-ice conditioning test. He had been off the ice because of a foot contusion, which he apparently sustained when blocking a shot in a workout earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Stepan scored 17 goals and set career highs with 40 assists and 57 points in 82 games last season. He has never missed a regular-season game in four years with the Rangers, and has compiled 73 goals with 124 assists for 197 points in 294 games.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old Minnesota native notched five goals and 15 points in 24 playoff games last spring, helping the Rangers to the Stanley Cup Finals. He missed just one game &#8212; Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals against the Canadiens &#8212; after he suffered a broken jaw on a hit by Montreal&#8217;s Brandon Prust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; New York Rangers center Derek Stepan suffered a non-displaced fractured fibula during practice on Wednesday and will be sidelined 4-to-6 weeks, the team announced. NorthJersey.com reported earlier that Stepan was hurt during an on-ice conditioning test. He had been off the ice because of a foot contusion, which he apparently [&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-23895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23895","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=23895"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23917,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23895\/revisions\/23917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}