{"id":332868,"date":"2025-12-08T18:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T18:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/332868\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T18:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T18:14:08","slug":"nhl-status-report-point-to-return-for-lightning-against-maple-leafs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/332868\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Status Report: Point to return for Lightning against Maple Leafs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the NHL Status Report. Here is the latest lineup\/injury news around the NHL.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay Lightning<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/brayden-point-8478010\" title=\"Brayden Point\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brayden Point<\/a> will return against the Toronto Maple Leafs on Monday (7:30 p.m. ET; TVAS, Prime, NHLN, The Spot) after the Lightning forward missed seven games because of an undisclosed injury. \u201cThat\u2019s a bonus for us,\u201d coach Jon Cooper said. \u201cI\u2019ve really liked our game, I&#8217;ve liked the way we&#8217;ve played \u2026 every team gets injuries, and I don&#8217;t remember, though, for us personally, even through our Cup runs and all that, not since 2017 has this happened to us.\u201d \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/andrei-vasilevskiy-8476883\" title=\"Andrei Vasilevskiy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrei Vasilevskiy<\/a> (undisclosed) was placed on injured reserve; Tampa Bay\u2019s No. 1 goalie has missed the past two games and also won\u2019t be available for its game Tuesday at the Montreal Canadiens. Vasilevskiy is 11-6-1 with a 2.31 goals-against average and .917 save percentage in 19 starts. \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/nikita-kucherov-8476453\" title=\"Nikita Kucherov\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nikita Kucherov<\/a> (undisclosed) participated in the morning skate Monday and will return after the forward did not play Saturday. Kucherov leads the Lightning with 34 points (12 goals, 22 assists) in 25 games.<\/p>\n<p>Utah Mammoth<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/logan-cooley-8483431\" title=\"Logan Cooley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Logan Cooley<\/a> is out indefinitely with a lower-body injury, the Mammoth announced Monday before their game against the Los Angeles Kings (9 p.m. ET; FDSNW, Utah16). Cooley, a forward, last played Dec. 5 in a 4-1 win at the Vancouver Canucks. He is third on the Mammoth with 23 points (14 goals, nine assists) in 29 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to the NHL Status Report. Here is the latest lineup\/injury news around the NHL. Tampa Bay Lightning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-332868","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\/332868","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=332868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}