{"id":656790,"date":"2026-05-08T02:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T02:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/656790\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T02:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T02:22:08","slug":"hurricanes-defenceman-alexander-nikishin-returns-for-game-3-vs-flyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/656790\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricanes defenceman Alexander Nikishin returns for Game 3 vs. Flyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nikishkin was <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TomGulittiNHL\/status\/2052412169556234335\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">spotted<\/a> playing alongside Shayne Gostisbehere Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>He missed the first two games of Carolina&#8217;s second-round series with Philadelphia after suffering a concussion in Game 4 of the Hurricanes&#8217; first-round series with the Ottawa Senators.<\/p>\n<p>Nikishin tallied 11 goals and 33 points in 81 games played this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Hurricanes are up 2-0 on the Flyers heading into Thursday&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nikishkin was spotted playing alongside Shayne Gostisbehere Thursday morning. He missed the first two games of Carolina&#8217;s second-round&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-656790","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\/656790","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=656790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}