{"id":448376,"date":"2026-02-02T03:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T03:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/448376\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T03:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T03:04:07","slug":"lightnings-anthony-cirelli-exits-stadium-series-with-undisclosed-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/448376\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning&#8217;s Anthony Cirelli exits Stadium Series with undisclosed injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/tampa-bay-lightning\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"tampa-bay-lightning\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> will look to complete the comeback against the Boston Bruins in the Stadium Series without their top centreman.<\/p>\n<p>Already without Brayden Point, <a class=\"sn-player-post-link\" data-player=\"dffd535e-62c7-44e1-a50a-7b7bccf1ce98\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/anthony-cirelli\/dffd535e-62c7-44e1-a50a-7b7bccf1ce98\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Anthony Cirelli<\/a> suffered an undisclosed injury and will not return, the team <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BenjaminJReport\/status\/2018149821081645333?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">announced<\/a> prior to the third period on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Cirelli also missed the second period after he was the recipient of a Mark Kastelic open-ice hit at centre ice with under two minutes left in the opening frame. The Lightning forward was visibly shaken up and in discomfort on the bench following the collision.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old Cirelli has enjoyed a solid season with Tampa, posting 15 goals, 20 assists and is +29 in 48 games. <\/p>\n<p>His play earned him a spot on Team Canada at the Olympics, which plays its first match on Feb. 12 against Czechia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Lightning will look to complete the comeback against the Boston Bruins in the Stadium Series&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-448376","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\/448376","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=448376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}