{"id":604935,"date":"2026-04-13T21:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T21:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/604935\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T21:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T21:52:11","slug":"jared-mccann-to-miss-krakens-last-3-games-with-lower-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/604935\/","title":{"rendered":"Jared McCann to miss Kraken&#8217;s last 3 games with lower-body injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apr 13, 2026, 03:43 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>SEATTLE &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/sea\/seattle-kraken\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Kraken<\/a> forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/3114777\/jared-mccann\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jared McCann<\/a> will miss the team&#8217;s final three regular-season games with a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>The Kraken (34-34-11) were already eliminated from playoff contention ahead of Saturday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/game\/_\/gameId\/401803624\/flames-kraken\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">4-1 win<\/a> against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/cgy\/calgary-flames\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Calgary Flames<\/a>. McCann can now get a head start on preparing for the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/story\/_\/id\/48468167\/2025-26-nhl-awards-watch-ranking-ballots-hart-norris-calder-vezina-selke\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/r1642453_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/story\/_\/id\/48468003\/nhl-playoffs-bracket-standings-2026-wild-card-bracket-games-matchups\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/r1642450_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<p>McCann, 29, has appeared in 52 games and scored 20 goals, tied with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/4781552\/matty-beniers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matty Beniers<\/a> for second-most on the team. The regular in Seattle&#8217;s top six has scored at least 20 goals in each of his five seasons with the Kraken, who acquired McCann in the 2021 NHL expansion draft when Seattle started as a franchise.<\/p>\n<p>McCann was a particularly impactful player for the Kraken in the 2022-23 season, which was the only year Seattle has made the Stanley Cup playoffs. The Kraken advanced to the second round, losing to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/dal\/dallas-stars\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Stars<\/a> in seven games, and McCann scored a career-high 40 goals during the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>McCann, a first round pick in the 2014 NHL entry draft, is entering the final season of a five-year, $25 million contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apr 13, 2026, 03:43 PM ET SEATTLE &#8212; Seattle Kraken forward Jared McCann will miss the team&#8217;s final&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-604935","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\/604935","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=604935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}