{"id":346109,"date":"2025-12-15T05:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T05:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/346109\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T05:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T05:23:09","slug":"hurricanes-activate-jaccob-slavin-from-injured-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/346109\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricanes activate Jaccob Slavin from injured reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"

RALEIGH, N.C. \u2014 The Carolina Hurricanes<\/a> have been able to reach first place in the Metropolitan Division without star defenseman Jaccob Slavin<\/a> for most of the season.<\/p>\n

The Hurricanes got Slavin back in the lineup for Sunday\u2019s\u00a03-2 shootout win over the Philadelphia Flyers\u00a0after a 29-game absence with what the team called a \u201clower-body injury.\u201d<\/p>\n

He started the game and played 14:31 and blocked three shots. The 11th-year defenseman played in the first two games of the season but hadn\u2019t played since Oct. 11.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s good to be back out there playing,\u2019 Slavin said. \u201cSometimes being injured is almost harder than the grind of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n

Slavin said he and the team\u2019s medical staff had Sunday\u2019s date circled as a potential return.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a long season, so we just wanted to make sure I was good to go and I wasn\u2019t going to have any flareups,\u201d Slavin said while declining to add any details about the injury. \u201cWe had a good plan in place.\u201d<\/p>\n

Slavin has been a cornerstone of the Hurricanes\u2019 defence during the current streak of seven straight playoff appearances under coach Rod Brind\u2019Amour.<\/p>\n

He was a standout performer for Team USA in the 4 Nations Face-Off last year and is expected to have a key role for the Americans in the Winter Olympics in February. The team hasn’t shared much publicly about Slavin’s injury but there was an expectation that Slavin would try to return and be ready for the Olympics.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my mind, if my first game back wasn’t going to be before the Olympics, I wouldn\u2019t have gone,\u201d Slavin said. \u201cMy priority is this team and the group that we have here. We have a special group this year. The Olympics would be awesome, if it happens, but we will have to see.\u201d<\/p>\n

To make room on the NHL roster, the Hurricanes sent Joel Nystrom<\/a> down to their AHL affiliate in Chicago. Nystrom had five assists in 24 games with the Hurricanes as one of the replacements for Slavin. On Friday, the Hurricanes signed Nystrom to a four-year contract extension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RALEIGH, N.C. \u2014 The Carolina Hurricanes have been able to reach first place in the Metropolitan Division without…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-346109","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\/346109","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=346109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}