{"id":152214,"date":"2025-09-18T14:03:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T14:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/152214\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T14:03:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T14:03:16","slug":"paul-has-surgery-out-until-november-for-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/152214\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul has surgery, out until November for Lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/nicholas-paul-8477426\" title=\"Nick Paul\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Paul<\/a> will be out until November for the Tampa Bay Lightning after having surgery for an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old forward had surgery last Friday for the injury, which he sustained last season but played through.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s something he had been dealing with most of last season, to be honest,&#8221; Lightning general manager Julien BriseBois said Wednesday. &#8220;We tried every conservative method of getting him back to 100 percent over the course of summer, and everything we tried just wasn&#8217;t working. And as we got closer to the start of the season, we decided this was probably best to be addressed through surgery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Paul had 41 points (22 goals, 19 assists) in 76 regular-season games and two goals in five Stanley Cup Playoff games for the Lightning.<\/p>\n<p>Acquired by Tampa Bay in a trade with the Ottawa Senators on March 20, 2022, Paul has 133 points (68 goals, 65 assists) in 259 regular-season games with them and 199 points (97 goals, 102 assists) in 486 regular-season games since being selected by the Dallas Stars in the fourth round (No. 101) of the 2013 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Paul has 14 points (10 goals, four assists) in 39 playoff games.<\/p>\n<p>The Lightning open the regular season against the Senators on Oct. 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick Paul will be out until November for the Tampa Bay Lightning after having surgery for an upper-body&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-152214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}