{"id":509476,"date":"2026-02-28T10:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T10:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/509476\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T10:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T10:07:07","slug":"jets-vladislav-namestnikov-mark-scheifele-injured-vs-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/509476\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets&#8217; Vladislav Namestnikov, Mark Scheifele injured vs. Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Namestnikov was injured after he was tripped, causing him to collide with teammate Adam Lowry late in the second period. The 33-year-old was able to skate off on his own power, but went straight to the locker room for further evaluation. <\/p>\n<p>Top-line forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/mark-scheifele\/435312d6-0f24-11e2-8525-18a905767e44\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"435312d6-0f24-11e2-8525-18a905767e44\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mark Scheifele<\/a>, meanwhile, appeared to suffer an injury at the end of overtime, favouring his right leg as he left the ice. <\/p>\n<p>Head coach Scott Arniel had no updates on either forward, telling <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WiebesWorld\/status\/2027629054502048066?s=20\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WiebesWorld\/status\/2027629054502048066?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">reporters<\/a> that both are undergoing further evaluation and can expect an update on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>Namestnikov, in his 13th NHL season and fourth in Winnipeg, has seven goals and 13 points in 56 games for the Jets this season. <\/p>\n<p>He was selected 27th overall by the Tampa Bay Lightning at the 2011 NHL Draft. <\/p>\n<p>Scheifele, 32, has spent his entire 15-year career with the Jets. In 58 games this season, the Kitchener, Ont., native has 27 goals and 70 points. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Namestnikov was injured after he was tripped, causing him to collide with teammate Adam Lowry late in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-509476","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\/509476","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=509476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}