{"id":5944,"date":"2013-10-05T16:17:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T16:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/burrows-to-miss-weeks-with-lower-body-injury\/"},"modified":"2013-10-05T16:17:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T16:17:00","slug":"burrows-to-miss-weeks-with-lower-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/burrows-to-miss-weeks-with-lower-body-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Burrows to miss weeks with lower-body injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vancouver, BC (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Vancouver Canucks forward Alex Burrows is expected to miss a couple of weeks with what is being called a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>Burrows was hurt after blocking a shot from a San Jose player in Thursday&#8217;s 4-1 loss. He managed to finish the contest but hasn&#8217;t taken the ice since then and was seen wearing a walking boot in the locker room on Saturday, hours before the Canucks were to host the Edmonton Oilers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s going to be out a couple of weeks, and that&#8217;s where we&#8217;re going to leave it. We&#8217;re not calling up another forward. We&#8217;ll dress an extra defenseman. I know you&#8217;re going to ask 15 questions about shot blocking. Alex Burrows made the right play. If he doesn&#8217;t make that play, he&#8217;d probably never kill a 5-on-3 for me again,&#8221; said Canucks head coach John Tortorella.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old totaled 13 goals and 24 points in 47 games last year for Vancouver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vancouver, BC (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Vancouver Canucks forward Alex Burrows is expected to miss a couple of weeks with what is being called a lower-body injury. Burrows was hurt after blocking a shot from a San Jose player in Thursday&#8217;s 4-1 loss. He managed to finish the contest but hasn&#8217;t taken the ice since then and [&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-5944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5944","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=5944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}