{"id":331492,"date":"2025-12-08T02:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T02:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/331492\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T02:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T02:16:07","slug":"nhl-status-report-leonard-out-indefinitely-for-capitals-with-upper-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/331492\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Status Report: Leonard out indefinitely for Capitals with upper-body injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the NHL Status Report. Here is the latest lineup\/injury news around the NHL.<\/p>\n<p>Washington Capitals<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/ryan-leonard-8484186\" title=\"Ryan Leonard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Leonard<\/a> has been placed on injured reserve and will miss an \u201cextended period of time\u201d because of an upper-body injury, Capitals coach Spencer Carbery said before their game against the Columbus Blue Jackets on Sunday. The rookie forward was injured during a 4-3 shootout loss at the Anaheim Ducks on Friday, leaving in the first period after a hit from Ducks defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/jacob-trouba-8476885\" title=\"Jacob Trouba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacob Trouba<\/a>. Leonard has 18 points (seven goals, 11 assists) in 29 games. \u201cHaving it happen at this point in his career, early on when he was having some success, is no doubt unfortunate and probably frustrating, but also part of it,\u201d Carbery said. \u201cHe\u2019ll come out of it and I have no doubt he\u2019ll be back and ready to go when he is and get right back after it.\u201d \u2026 Goalie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/charlie-lindgren-8479292\" title=\"Charlie Lindgren\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie Lindgren<\/a> (upper body) was also placed on injured reserve Sunday; he made 23 saves in a 7-1 win against the San Jose Sharks on Wednesday. Lindgren is 5-3-1 with a 2.90 goals-against average and .893 save percentage in 10 games (nine starts). Washington recalled forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/bogdan-trineyev-8482167\" title=\"Bogdan Trineyev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bogdan Trineyev<\/a> and goalie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/clay-stevenson-8483532\" title=\"Clay Stevenson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Clay Stevenson<\/a> from Hershey of the American Hockey League. \u2026 Defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/john-carlson-8474590\" title=\"John Carlson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Carlson<\/a> (upper body) missed his third straight game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to the NHL Status Report. Here is the latest lineup\/injury news around the NHL. Washington Capitals Ryan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-331492","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331492","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=331492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}