{"id":552403,"date":"2026-03-20T08:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T08:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/552403\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T08:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T08:13:08","slug":"lightnings-victor-hedman-exits-vs-canucks-due-to-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/552403\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning&#8217;s Victor Hedman exits vs. Canucks due to illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/victor-hedman\/434956c9-0f24-11e2-8525-18a905767e44\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Victor Hedman<\/a> exited against the Vancouver Canucks following the first period with what head coach Jon Cooper described as an illness post-game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll let everybody know tomorrow,&#8221; Cooper <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BenjaminJReport\/status\/2034859034243661846?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">told reporters<\/a> after the Lightning&#8217;s 6-2 win. &#8220;He wasn&#8217;t feeling well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The defenceman was absent from the Lightning bench to begin the second frame and ultimately never returned, finishing the night with 4:44 of ice time.<\/p>\n<p>Hedman already missed a good chunk of the season due to elbow surgery and has been limited to just 32 games.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old has posted a goal and 16 assists in his limited appearances. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victor Hedman exited against the Vancouver Canucks following the first period with what head coach Jon Cooper described&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-552403","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\/552403","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=552403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}