{"id":560652,"date":"2026-03-25T22:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T22:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/560652\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T22:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T22:14:07","slug":"lightnings-victor-hedman-taking-leave-of-absence-for-personal-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/560652\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning&#8217;s Victor Hedman taking leave of absence for personal reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Per the team, no further details will be shared. <\/p>\n<p>Hedman, 35, last played March 19 against the Vancouver Canucks, where he exited early due to an illness. <\/p>\n<p>In 33 games this season \u2014 shortened as a result of injuries \u2014\u00a0the Swede has one goal and 17 points. <\/p>\n<p>The 2009 second-overall pick has played 1,164 NHL games, all with Tampa Bay. <\/p>\n<p>The Lightning return to action Thursday against the Seattle Kraken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Per the team, no further details will be shared. Hedman, 35, last played March 19 against the Vancouver&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-560652","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\/560652","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=560652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}