{"id":168676,"date":"2025-09-25T16:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T16:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/168676\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T16:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T16:06:11","slug":"benn-to-miss-start-of-season-for-stars-with-collapsed-lung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/168676\/","title":{"rendered":"Benn to miss start of season for Stars with collapsed lung"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/jamie-benn-8473994\" title=\"Jamie Benn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jamie Benn<\/a> will miss the start of the season for the Dallas Stars because of a collapsed lung.<\/p>\n<p>The forward will have surgery and then will be reevaluated in four weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Benn was diagnosed with the injury in the third period of a 3-2 preseason overtime win against the Minnesota Wild on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old Stars captain had 49 points (16 goals, 33 assists) in 80 regular-season games last season and three points (one goal, two assists) in 18 Stanley Cup Playoff games.<\/p>\n<p>A fifth-round pick (No. 129) by Dallas in the 2007 NHL Draft, Benn has 956 points (399 goals, 557 assists) in 1,192 regular-season games and 80 points (28 goals, 52 assists) in 120 playoff games.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas opens the regular season at the Winnipeg Jets on Oct. 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jamie Benn will miss the start of the season for the Dallas Stars because of a collapsed lung.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-168676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}