{"id":940729,"date":"2026-10-25T19:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T19:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/940729\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T19:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T19:34:08","slug":"kraken-forward-jared-mccann-sidelined-long-term-with-lower-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/940729\/","title":{"rendered":"Kraken forward Jared McCann sidelined long-term with lower-body injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a data-team=\"seattle-kraken\" data-league=\"nhl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/seattle-kraken\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Seattle Kraken<\/a> will look to keep pace in the Pacific Division without one of their top scorers.<\/p>\n<p>Forward <a data-player=\"79aedf72-1b71-488d-90af-48c0736da847\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/jared-mccann\/79aedf72-1b71-488d-90af-48c0736da847\" target=\"_self\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jared McCann<\/a> is expected to miss 10 weeks with a lower-body injury, the Kraken <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SeattleKrakenPR\/status\/2114401609782640989\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SeattleKrakenPR\/status\/2114401609782640989\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">announced <\/a>on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>McCann has three goals and five assists for eight points in 11 games this season with Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>The Kraken are third in the division following a 7-4-1 start but are coming off a 5-1 loss to the Minnesota Wild on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a guy that we\u2019re going to miss, and I thought we missed him in certain situations tonight for sure,&#8221; Kraken head coach Lane Lambert said about McCann&#8217;s absence <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KPlKmsiGh5M\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KPlKmsiGh5M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">after the game<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kaapo Kakko was promoted to the top line in McCann\u2019s spot alongside Jordan Eberle and Matty Beniers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Seattle Kraken will look to keep pace in the Pacific Division without one of their top scorers.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":940730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-940729","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\/940729","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=940729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/940730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}