{"id":28953,"date":"2015-01-26T18:53:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T18:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/avs-all-star-johnson-out-3-to-8-weeks\/"},"modified":"2015-01-26T18:53:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T18:53:00","slug":"avs-all-star-johnson-out-3-to-8-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/avs-all-star-johnson-out-3-to-8-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Avs All-Star Johnson out 3-to-8 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denver, CO (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Colorado Avalanche could be without top defenseman Erik Johnson for up to two months after the 2015 All-Star underwent arthroscopic knee surgery on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson, who was unable to take part in this past weekend&#8217;s All-Star festivities in Columbus due to the injury, is expected to be sidelined anywhere from 3-to-8 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The 2006 No. 1 overall pick has already set a career high with 12 goals through just 47 games, tied for the most in the NHL by a defenseman this season.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson leads the Avalanche in average time on ice (24:25) and blocked shots (107) as well while recording 23 points thus far in 2014-15.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old is the first Colorado defenseman to be named an All-Star since Hall of Famer Rob Blake during the 2003-04 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denver, CO (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Colorado Avalanche could be without top defenseman Erik Johnson for up to two months after the 2015 All-Star underwent arthroscopic knee surgery on Monday. Johnson, who was unable to take part in this past weekend&#8217;s All-Star festivities in Columbus due to the injury, is expected to be sidelined anywhere from [&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-28953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28953","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=28953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}