{"id":946544,"date":"2026-10-26T05:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T05:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/946544\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T05:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T05:22:08","slug":"nhl-status-report-mccann-out-10-weeks-for-kraken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/946544\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Status Report: McCann out 10 weeks for Kraken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh Penguins<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/evgeni-malkin-8471215\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Evgeni Malkin<\/a> (illness), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/yegor-chinakhov-8482475\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Egor Chinakhov<\/a> (lower body), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/justin-brazeau-8479638\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Brazeau<\/a> (lower body) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/samuel-girard-8479398\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Samuel Girard<\/a>\u00a0(lower body) practiced with the Penguins on Sunday, one day after each was unavailable for a 3-2 overtime win against the Nashville Predators. Malkin, a forward, participated in an optional morning skate Saturday but did not play. Chinakhov, a forward, has missed Pittsburgh\u2019s past two games. Brazeau wore a regular jersey Saturday morning, but the forward has yet to play this season after he was injured during a preseason game Sept. 21.\u00a0Girard was placed on injured reserve Saturday. The defenseman has missed the past three games. \u201cAll the guys that were out with the bigger group today were all full contract,\u201d coach Dan Muse said. \u201cNo status update other than it&#8217;s another step for those guys.&#8221; The Penguins don&#8217;t play again until Thursday, when they host the Mammoth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Penguins Evgeni Malkin (illness), Egor Chinakhov (lower body), Justin Brazeau (lower body) and Samuel Girard\u00a0(lower body) practiced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":946545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,82],"class_list":["post-946544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946544","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=946544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/946545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}