{"id":6114,"date":"2013-10-09T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T16:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wild-g-backstrom-has-knee-strain\/"},"modified":"2013-10-09T16:09:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T16:09:00","slug":"wild-g-backstrom-has-knee-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wild-g-backstrom-has-knee-strain\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild G Backstrom has knee strain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Paul, MN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Minnesota Wild goaltender Niklas Backstrom has been diagnosed with a right knee strain and is listed as day-to- day.<\/p>\n<p>Backstrom left Tuesday&#8217;s 3-2 loss to the Nashville Predators with an apparent right leg injury. He was forced from the game with 8:46 remaining in the first period, when his leg was wrapped around the post in a goalmouth collision between teammate and defenseman Keith Ballard and Nashville&#8217;s Eric Nystrom.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Harding took over in net for the Wild, and allowed Nystrom&#8217;s penalty-shot goal to put the visitors down 3-1.<\/p>\n<p>Backstrom departed having allowed two goals on only five shots.<\/p>\n<p>In other roster news Wednesday, the Wild recalled forward Stephen Veilleux from the AHL&#8217;s Iowa Stars, while assigning forwards Carson McMillan and Jason Zucker to Iowa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Paul, MN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Minnesota Wild goaltender Niklas Backstrom has been diagnosed with a right knee strain and is listed as day-to- day. Backstrom left Tuesday&#8217;s 3-2 loss to the Nashville Predators with an apparent right leg injury. He was forced from the game with 8:46 remaining in the first period, when his leg [&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-6114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6114","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=6114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}