{"id":449977,"date":"2026-01-31T17:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T17:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/449977\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T17:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T17:42:07","slug":"penguins-kris-letang-out-at-least-4-weeks-with-broken-foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/449977\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins&#8217; Kris Letang out at least 4 weeks with broken foot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"472f7324-d0ab-e645-bce6-a3cd3dcb110d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/pit\/pittsburgh-penguins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> defenseman <a data-player-guid=\"9271d8c0-2a38-8f0b-075c-ecdb85938a2a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/3539\/kris-letang\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kris Letang<\/a> will miss at least four weeks after suffering a broken foot, the team said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins did not specify when Letang suffered the injury. He did not practice Friday after playing 21:15 during Thursday&#8217;s win over the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"e1595aca-83a9-f0b3-5621-0ef78e76d097\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/chi\/chicago-blackhawks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Blackhawks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Letang, 38, has scored three goals with 22 assists in 50 games this season.<\/p>\n<p>Penguins center <a data-player-guid=\"a634ec22-216e-df94-c6a5-a14f2daa7059\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/3124\/evgeni-malkin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Evgeni Malkin<\/a> also did not practice Friday for undisclosed reasons. He missed time in December with a shoulder injury before returning Jan. 10. Malkin and Letang rank No. 2 and 3, respectively, in career games played for the Penguins, behind only <a data-player-guid=\"706fa356-342c-1e1e-dce4-1bdd4d70a33f\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/3114\/sidney-crosby\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sidney Crosby<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Kris Letang will miss at least four weeks after suffering a broken foot, the team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-449977","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\/449977","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=449977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}