{"id":556122,"date":"2026-03-23T21:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T21:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/556122\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T21:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T21:54:07","slug":"seattle-kraken-forward-ryan-winterton-takes-leave-of-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/556122\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Kraken forward Ryan Winterton takes leave of absence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">SEATTLE (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/seattle-kraken\/55\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/seattle-kraken\/55\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Kraken<\/a> forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/ryan-winterton\/8482751\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/ryan-winterton\/8482751\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Winterton<\/a> will take a temporary leave of absence, the team said in a statement on Monday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Winterton will be attending to a family matter, the statement said, and that no further details will be shared. Winterton, 22, has appeared in a career-high 62 games this season, with career highs in goals (four) and assists (14). He played in 19 games for the Kraken over the two previous seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Last month, the Kraken agreed to terms on a two-year extension with Winterton. General manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/jason-botterill\/8460510\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/jason-botterill\/8460510\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Botterill<\/a> commended Winterton on his steady improvement as a player. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cHe\u2019s been able to carve out a role on this team with his speed and strong two-way game,\u201d Botterill said in a statement. \u201dWe\u2019re excited to have him under contract through the 2027-28 season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Seattle trails the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/nashville-predators\/18\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/nashville-predators\/18\" target=\"_blank\">Nashville Predators<\/a> by four points for the second wild-card spot in the Western Conference with 13 games remaining. The Kraken have one game in hand on Nashville. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP NHL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Andrew Destin, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE (AP) \u2014 Seattle Kraken forward Ryan Winterton will take a temporary leave of absence, the team said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-556122","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\/556122","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=556122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}