{"id":6823,"date":"2013-10-24T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T16:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/bruins-f-eriksson-out-indefinitely-with-concussion\/"},"modified":"2013-10-31T05:10:11","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T05:10:11","slug":"bruins-f-eriksson-out-indefinitely-with-concussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/bruins-f-eriksson-out-indefinitely-with-concussion\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruins F Eriksson out indefinitely with concussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston, MA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Boston Bruins forward Loui Eriksson will be out indefinitely after suffering a concussion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Loui traveled back to Boston from Buffalo by plane today with a member of the Bruins medical staff,&#8221; said Bruins GM Peter Chiarelli in a Thursday statement. &#8220;After an examination by team doctors in Boston, he has been diagnosed with a concussion and will be out indefinitely. The team will provide a further update on Loui&#8217;s status when appropriate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Eriksson left Wednesday&#8217;s 5-2 victory against the Buffalo Sabres after taking a vicious hit to the head from Buffalo enforcer John Scott.<\/p>\n<p>In the third period, Eriksson was skating through the neutral zone and had just passed the puck when Scott laid a vicious hit to Eriksson&#8217;s head. The former Dallas Star needed assistance to get off the ice and was taken to a local hospital. He stayed in Buffalo overnight for observation.<\/p>\n<p>Scott was given a major penalty for charging along with a match penalty and another major for fighting Bruins defenseman Adam McQuaid after the hit.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-8 forward now faces a suspension of at least five games following an in-person hearing with the NHL Department of Player Safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston, MA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Boston Bruins forward Loui Eriksson will be out indefinitely after suffering a concussion. &#8220;Loui traveled back to Boston from Buffalo by plane today with a member of the Bruins medical staff,&#8221; said Bruins GM Peter Chiarelli in a Thursday statement. &#8220;After an examination by team doctors in Boston, he has been [&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-6823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6823","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=6823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6847,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6823\/revisions\/6847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}