{"id":221098,"date":"2025-10-17T21:04:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T21:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/221098\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T21:04:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T21:04:14","slug":"kings-captain-anze-kopitar-week-to-week-with-foot-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/221098\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings captain Anze Kopitar week-to-week with foot injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oct 17, 2025, 03:40 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>EL SEGUNDO, Calif. &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/la\/los-angeles-kings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Kings<\/a> captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/3183\/anze-kopitar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anze Kopitar<\/a> has a significant foot injury that could sideline him for the near future.<\/p>\n<p>The Kings announced Friday that Kopitar is week-to-week after he missed their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/game\/_\/gameId\/401802422\/penguins-kings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">4-2 loss<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/pit\/pittsburgh-penguins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Kopitar was hit in the foot by a deflected puck during the Kings&#8217; shootout loss at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/min\/minnesota-wild\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Wild<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>He is beginning his 20th and final season in an NHL career spent entirely with the Kings. The Slovenian center announced his impending retirement last month at the start of training camp.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<p>The two-time Stanley Cup champion has twice won the Selke Trophy as the NHL&#8217;s top defensive forward. He is the second-leading scorer in Kings history and a five-time All-Star.<\/p>\n<p>The Kings are off to a rough start to the season, losing three straight to fall to 1-3-1. New general manager Ken Holland made only a few changes to the roster that matched the franchise records for points and victories last season.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles hosts unbeaten <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/car\/carolina-hurricanes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carolina<\/a> on Saturday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct 17, 2025, 03:40 PM ET EL SEGUNDO, Calif. &#8212; Los Angeles Kings captain Anze Kopitar has a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-221098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221098","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=221098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}