{"id":274210,"date":"2025-11-09T23:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T23:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/274210\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T23:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T23:19:08","slug":"injury-notes-perfetti-nazar-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/274210\/","title":{"rendered":"Injury Notes: Perfetti, Nazar, Lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Murat Ates of The Athletic shared that<\/a>\u00a0Winnipeg Jets forward Cole Perfetti<\/a> participated in morning skate alongside Jonathan Toews<\/a> and Vladislav Namestnikov<\/a>, fueling speculation that the 23-year-old could make his season debut soon. Sure enough, the Jets officially announced<\/a> Perfetti will play tonight in Anaheim.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Perfetti suffered a sprained ankle in the preseason after going down awkwardly, which while unfortunate, was feared to be even worse. The Jets are 9-5-0 in his absence, and now welcome back Perfetti, an 82-game player last year, who will aim to move past the setback and build off last year\u2019s 50-point production. As mentioned by Ates, Perfetti took reps on the Jets\u2019 top power play unit, and the youngster could be an immediate factor tonight as Winnipeg looks to end the Ducks\u2019 six-game winning streak.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Elsewhere across the league:<\/p>\n

Blackhawks forward Frank Nazar<\/a> was a last-minute scratch due to injury today, as reported by<\/a> Charlie Roumeliotis of WGN Radio. Nazar left Friday\u2019s game<\/a> after being cross-checked by Joel Farabee<\/a>, but it appears he will not be sidelined long, given that he took warmups before being deemed unable to go against his hometown Detroit Red Wings. Nazar, 21, is among the club\u2019s top point-getters with 11 in 15 games. Barring any setbacks, he is expected to set career highs across the board in 2025-26, after 56 professional games in the last two seasons.\u00a0
\nBenjamin Pierce, Tampa Bay\u2019s beat writer, shared multiple updates<\/a> on Lightning players currently banged up. Veteran Ryan McDonagh<\/a> is still under evaluation after departing last night\u2019s game. Pierce went on to say<\/a> that Anthony Cirelli<\/a> is day-to-day, and the team hopes he is all set for the next game. Cirelli\u2019s ailment was first noted yesterday.<\/a> Thankfully, the Bolts have some time to rest up, as they won\u2019t be in action until Wednesday, hosting the Rangers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Murat Ates of The Athletic shared that\u00a0Winnipeg Jets forward Cole Perfetti participated in morning skate alongside Jonathan Toews…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[159223,64,63,7520,159224,150937,3899,575,10608,85,4788,6000],"class_list":{"0":"post-274210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-anthony-cirelli","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-chicago-blackhawks","12":"tag-cole-perfetti","13":"tag-frank-nazar","14":"tag-injury","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-ryan-mcdonagh","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning","19":"tag-winnipeg-jets"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274210","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=274210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}