{"id":205942,"date":"2026-03-25T20:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T20:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/205942\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T20:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T20:33:08","slug":"victor-hedman-taking-temporary-leave-from-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/205942\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Hedman taking temporary leave from Lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA \u2014 Defenseman Victor Hedman will take a temporary leave of absence from the Tampa Bay Lightning, the team disclosed Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X, the team said the leave is for personal reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Hedman has played in 33 games this season for the Bolts, who entered play Wednesday with a 44-21-5 record. The Bolts are second in the Atlantic Division, two points behind the Buffalo Sabres.<\/p>\n<p>Hedman has spent his entire 17-year career with the Lightning.<\/p>\n<p>The Bolts are back on the ice Thursday night for a 7 p.m. game against the Seattle Kraken at Benchmark International Arena.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Tampa Bay Lightning announced today that defenseman Victor Hedman will be taking a temporary leave of absence from the team for personal reasons.<\/p>\n<p>No further details will be shared, and the team asks that his privacy be respected at this time.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tampa Bay Lightning (@TBLightning) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TBLightning\/status\/2036884813613809904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 25, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA \u2014 Defenseman Victor Hedman will take a temporary leave of absence from the Tampa Bay Lightning, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1242,28,115,139,275,110,135,862,137,136],"class_list":["post-205942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-app-professional-sports","tag-florida","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-sports","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-lightning","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}