{"id":603052,"date":"2026-04-14T08:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T08:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/603052\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T08:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T08:45:10","slug":"lightning-to-use-ebug-with-jonas-johansson-out-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/603052\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning To Use EBUG With Jonas Johansson Out \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tampa Bay Lightning took the ice without backup goaltender Jonas Johansson<\/a> in Monday night\u2019s game against the Detroit Red Wings. Johansson is out day-to-day<\/a> with an undisclosed injury. In his place, the Lightning will roster emergency backup goaltender Kyle Konin<\/a>. This is Konin\u2019s third time serving on an NHL bench as an EBUG. He filled in for the St. Louis Blues in 2021 and for the Philadelphia Flyers in 2024.<\/p>\n

Konin has been the Tampa Bay-area EBUG since the 2020-21 season. He even wore a mask honoring Tampa Bay Lightning founder Phil Esposito<\/a> in his 2024 game with the Flyers per Forbes\u2019 Tom Layberger<\/a>. Konin last took the ice with Grand Valley State University in Division III ACHA club hockey. He played one season in the NA3HL in 2017-18 and recorded a .897 save percentage in 34 games. Konin also played one game of high school hockey with Kimball Union Academy in 2016-17 with teammate and eventual Boston Bruins defenseman Jordan Harris<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While Konin will get to donn the Lightning jersey for the first time, Tampa Bay will hope he isn\u2019t needed behind star starter Andrei Vasilevskiy<\/a>. The Lightning have two games left in their season, including Monday\u2019s matchup. Johansson\u2019s short-term designation should have him back in the lineup before the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. He has recorded 11 wins and a .884 save percentage in 25 games this season and should stick behind Vasilevskiy through the postseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Lightning took the ice without backup goaltender Jonas Johansson in Monday night\u2019s game against the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,5718,146900,228056,448,82,745],"class_list":{"0":"post-603052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-injury","11":"tag-jonas-johansson","12":"tag-kyle-konin","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603052","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=603052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}