{"id":420031,"date":"2026-01-19T21:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T21:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/420031\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T21:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T21:20:10","slug":"olympic-bound-thompson-josi-vejmelka-named-nhl-three-stars-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/420031\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic-bound Thompson, Josi, Vejmelka named NHL three stars of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768857610_274_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJan 19, 2026 | 1:02 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Buffalo Sabres centre Tage Thompson, Nashville Predators defenceman Roman Josi and Utah Mammoth goaltender Karel Vejmelka are the NHL\u2019s three stars of the week.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson led the NHL with nine points (three goals, six assists) in four games.<\/p>\n<p>His week was highlighted by his third career five-point performance (three goals, two assists) in a 5-3 win over visiting Montreal on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Josi had seven points (two goals, five assists) in three games as the Predators moved within a point of the Western Conference\u2019s second wild-card spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The Canadian Press Jan 19, 2026 | 1:02 PM NEW YORK \u2014 Buffalo Sabres centre Tage Thompson,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-420031","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\/420031","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=420031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}