{"id":425403,"date":"2026-01-22T08:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T08:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/425403\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T08:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T08:08:07","slug":"flames-huberdeau-out-vs-penguins-with-lower-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/425403\/","title":{"rendered":"Flames&#8217; Huberdeau out vs. Penguins with lower-body injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Huberdeau was ruled out of Wednesday&#8217;s game against the Pittsburgh Penguins with a lower-body injury, the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NHLFlames\/status\/2014158888145150024?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">team announced<\/a>. He is listed as day-to-day.<\/p>\n<p>Taking Huberdeau&#8217;s spot in the lineup will be forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/martin-pospisil\/4491def4-ccab-4c20-913b-42129d3af44e\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"4491def4-ccab-4c20-913b-42129d3af44e\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Martin Pospisil<\/a>, who will make his season debut. <\/p>\n<p>Pospisil, 26, was placed on the long-term injured reserve at the start of the season after missing the final pre-season game with an undisclosed injury.<\/p>\n<p>The Slovakian centre tallied four goals and 21 assists in 81 games last season and was rewarded with a three-year, $7.5-million contract extension in the off-season.<\/p>\n<p>After a 28-goal season last year, Huberdeau has struggled to maintain that pace in 2025-26. Through 44 games, the 32-year-old forward has recorded just eight goals and 13 assists.  <\/p>\n<p>You can watch Pospisil and the Flames take on Crosby and the Penguins live on Sportsnet and Sportsnet+ starting at 9:30 p.m. ET \/ 7:30 p.m. MT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Huberdeau was ruled out of Wednesday&#8217;s game against the Pittsburgh Penguins with a lower-body injury, the team announced.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-425403","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\/425403","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=425403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}