{"id":7984,"date":"2013-11-15T11:06:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T11:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wild-recall-gustafsson-2\/"},"modified":"2013-11-15T11:06:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T11:06:00","slug":"wild-recall-gustafsson-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wild-recall-gustafsson-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild recall Gustafsson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Paul, MN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Two days after losing goaltender Niklas Backstrom with an injury, the Minnesota Wild recalled goaltender Johan Gustafsson on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Backstrom left Wednesday&#8217;s game against Toronto after a first-period collision with Maple Leafs forward Nazem Kadri, who was fined and suspended three games for the collision on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Kadri crashed the net and made contact to the head of a defenseless Backstrom. The Minnesota netminder was motionless on the ice for a few seconds before getting up and staying in the game for a few more minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Following the game, the Wild announced on their Twitter account that Backstrom suffered an upper-body injury. The Wild have not updated Backstrom&#8217;s injury status since.<\/p>\n<p>Backstrom was in net instead of starter Josh Harding, who was feeling ill.<\/p>\n<p>Gustafsson, who has not appeared in an NHL game in his career, was 3-1-0 with a 2.45 goals-against average (GAA), a .920 save percentage and one shutout in five games with Iowa (AHL) this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Paul, MN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Two days after losing goaltender Niklas Backstrom with an injury, the Minnesota Wild recalled goaltender Johan Gustafsson on Friday. Backstrom left Wednesday&#8217;s game against Toronto after a first-period collision with Maple Leafs forward Nazem Kadri, who was fined and suspended three games for the collision on Thursday. Kadri crashed the [&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-7984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7984","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=7984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}