{"id":510170,"date":"2026-10-28T02:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T02:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/510170\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T02:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T02:58:09","slug":"canucks-leevi-merilainen-guarding-goal-in-anaheim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/510170\/","title":{"rendered":"Canucks&#8217; Leevi Merilainen: Guarding goal in Anaheim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nhl\/players\/26799459\/merilainen\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Merilainen<\/a> will protect the road goal versus the Ducks on Tuesday, <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nhl\/teams\/VAN\/vancouver-canucks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canucks<\/a> play-by-play announcer Brendan Batchelor reports.<\/p>\n<p>Merilainen will start consecutive games for the first time in about two weeks. He&#8217;ll get the nod despite having lost his last four outings with a total of 15 goals allowed in that span. The Ducks have won just one of their last six games, scoring 14 times during that stretch, so this could be a chance for Merilainen to return to the win column.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Merilainen will protect the road goal versus the Ducks on Tuesday, Canucks play-by-play announcer Brendan Batchelor reports. Merilainen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,822,62452,20226],"class_list":["post-510170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-fantasy-hockey","tag-leevi-merilainen","tag-vancouver-canucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510170","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=510170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}