{"id":24896,"date":"2014-10-24T13:57:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T13:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/bostons-chara-out-4-6-weeks-with-knee-injury\/"},"modified":"2014-10-24T13:57:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T13:57:00","slug":"bostons-chara-out-4-6-weeks-with-knee-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/bostons-chara-out-4-6-weeks-with-knee-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston&#8217;s Chara out 4-6 weeks with knee injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston, MA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Boston Bruins defenseman Zdeno Chara will be sidelined for the next 4-to-6 weeks because of a torn left knee ligament.<\/p>\n<p>Chara was hurt during the first period of Thursday&#8217;s game against the New York Islanders while delivering a hit to John Tavares.<\/p>\n<p>Tests revealed a torn posterior cruciate ligament. Surgery will not be required, for now.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s obviously a blow,&#8221; said Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli on Friday. &#8220;He&#8217;s one of the premier defensemen in the league, but I&#8217;d rather have it 4-to-6 weeks than 4-to-6 months.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chara has two goals and an assist through nine games this season, his ninth with the Bruins. The 37-year-old captain has been durable throughout his tenure in Boston, missing no more than five games in any of his previous eight seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston, MA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Boston Bruins defenseman Zdeno Chara will be sidelined for the next 4-to-6 weeks because of a torn left knee ligament. Chara was hurt during the first period of Thursday&#8217;s game against the New York Islanders while delivering a hit to John Tavares. Tests revealed a torn posterior cruciate ligament. Surgery 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-24896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24896","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=24896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}