{"id":26946,"date":"2014-12-09T15:19:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T15:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/varlamov-sidelined-again-by-groin-issue\/"},"modified":"2014-12-09T15:19:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T15:19:00","slug":"varlamov-sidelined-again-by-groin-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/varlamov-sidelined-again-by-groin-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Varlamov sidelined again by groin issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denver, CO (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Colorado Avalanche goaltender Semyon Varlamov has been sidelined once more by a groin injury, this one suffered in Monday&#8217;s practice session.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He had an MRI and they saw that there was a groin problem. They think it&#8217;ll be a couple weeks. That&#8217;s all I can say for now,&#8221; said Avs head coach Patrick Roy following Tuesday&#8217;s morning practice prior to a game against Nashville.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old Russian backstop has struggled to a 4-6-5 record and 3.22 goals-against average in 15 appearances (13 starts) this season. He has missed nine games in two separate stints already this year due to groin problems.<\/p>\n<p>Calvin Pickard is the likely substitute for Varlamov. The 22-year-old, who began the season with Lake Erie of the American Hockey League, has gone 3-4-0 with a 2.49 GAA in seven NHL appearances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denver, CO (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Colorado Avalanche goaltender Semyon Varlamov has been sidelined once more by a groin injury, this one suffered in Monday&#8217;s practice session. &#8220;He had an MRI and they saw that there was a groin problem. They think it&#8217;ll be a couple weeks. That&#8217;s all I can say for now,&#8221; said Avs head [&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-26946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26946","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=26946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}