{"id":628855,"date":"2026-04-26T01:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T01:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/628855\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T01:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T01:12:08","slug":"ehlers-misses-game-4-of-east-1st-round-for-hurricanes-with-lower-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/628855\/","title":{"rendered":"Ehlers misses Game 4 of East 1st Round for Hurricanes with lower-body injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/nikolaj-ehlers-8477940\" title=\"Nikolaj Ehlers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nikolaj Ehlers<\/a> did not play for the Carolina Hurricanes in their 4-2 win against the Ottawa Senators at Canadian Tire Centre on Saturday because of a lower-body injury. The Hurricanes eliminated the Senators with the Game 4 win to sweep the series.<\/p>\n<p>The forward played 17:06 in Carolina\u2019s 2-1 win here on Thursday. Ehlers has one assist in three games in the best-of-7 series, which the Hurricanes lead 3-0.<\/p>\n<p>Forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/nicolas-deslauriers-8475235\" title=\"Nicolas Deslauriers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicolas Deslauriers<\/a> replaced Ehlers in the lineup.<\/p>\n<p>Ehlers ranked second for Carolina during the regular season with 71 points (26 goals, 45 assists) in 82 games. He signed a six-year, $51 million contract ($8.5 million average annual value) with the Hurricanes on July 3, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA &#8212; Nikolaj Ehlers did not play for the Carolina Hurricanes in their 4-2 win against the Ottawa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-628855","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\/628855","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=628855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}