{"id":485296,"date":"2026-10-05T01:08:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T01:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/485296\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T01:08:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T01:08:40","slug":"panthers-aaron-ekblad-late-scratch-in-anaheim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/485296\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers&#8217; Aaron Ekblad: Late scratch in Anaheim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nhl\/players\/2147283\/ekblad\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ekblad<\/a> (personal) is not available for Sunday&#8217;s game in Anaheim, according to Armando Velez of Locked On Podcast Network.<\/p>\n<p>Per Velez, the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nhl\/teams\/FLA\/florida-panthers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Panthers<\/a>&#8216; television broadcast said that Ekblad is with his family, and the reason for his absence is a personal matter rather than an injury. It&#8217;s unclear if the right-shot defenseman will be available for Tuesday&#8217;s game in Los Angeles, but if Ekblad traveled back to Florida, he might not be an option for the Panthers until Saturday&#8217;s home matchup against the Wild.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ekblad (personal) is not available for Sunday&#8217;s game in Anaheim, according to Armando Velez of Locked On Podcast&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[52835,163,165,164,822,2065],"class_list":["post-485296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-aaron-ekblad","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-fantasy-hockey","tag-florida-panthers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}