{"id":7154,"date":"2013-10-31T13:04:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T13:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/ovechkin-to-miss-fridays-game-vs-flyers\/"},"modified":"2013-10-31T13:04:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T13:04:00","slug":"ovechkin-to-miss-fridays-game-vs-flyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/ovechkin-to-miss-fridays-game-vs-flyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Ovechkin to miss Friday&#8217;s game vs. Flyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Washington Capitals star forward Alex Ovechkin will not travel with the team to Philadelphia for Friday&#8217;s game against the Flyers due to an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>The star winger hurt his right shoulder early in Monday&#8217;s 3-2 loss to the Vancouver Canucks when he crashed into goalie Roberto Luongo after being tripped by defenseman Alexander Edler.<\/p>\n<p>Capitals coach Adam Oates told reporters Thursday that Ovechkin could return to the lineup for Saturday&#8217;s home game against the Florida Panthers.<\/p>\n<p>Ovechkin, who will miss his first game due to injury since Feb. 22, 2012, has 10 goals and five assists in 12 games this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Washington Capitals star forward Alex Ovechkin will not travel with the team to Philadelphia for Friday&#8217;s game against the Flyers due to an upper-body injury. The star winger hurt his right shoulder early in Monday&#8217;s 3-2 loss to the Vancouver Canucks when he crashed into goalie Roberto Luongo after being tripped [&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-7154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7154","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=7154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}