{"id":423324,"date":"2026-01-21T09:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T09:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/423324\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T09:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T09:29:08","slug":"lightnings-cirelli-suffers-injury-vs-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/423324\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning&#8217;s Cirelli suffers injury vs. Sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the Winter Olympics fast approaching, Team Canada will be in wait-and-see mode on the injury status of one of its players. <\/p>\n<p>Cirelli only took one shift at the beginning of the third period before not playing for the remainder of the game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know. I don&#8217;t want to say anything,&#8221; Lightning head coach Jon Cooper <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EddieInTheYard\/status\/2013812036140999000?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">told reporters<\/a> when asked about Cirelli&#8217;s status after the game. &#8220;He&#8217;s a tough kid, so I&#8217;m hoping he&#8217;ll be OK \u2026 We&#8217;ll see tomorrow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cirelli appeared to suffer the injury from some friendly fire from Lightning teammate Brandon Hagel midway through the second period.<\/p>\n<p>Hagel, who was also named to Canada&#8217;s Olympic team, ripped a shot from the slot that hit Cirelli in front of the net. <\/p>\n<p>Cirelli went to one knee in some discomfort, but stayed in the game until the start of the third.  <\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old forward has 13 goals and 17 assists in 44 games for the Lightning this season. <\/p>\n<p>Cirelli, from Etobicoke, Ont., was also a member of Team Canada at the 4 Nations Face-Off. He did not record a point in four games. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the Winter Olympics fast approaching, Team Canada will be in wait-and-see mode on the injury status of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-423324","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\/423324","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=423324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}