{"id":206386,"date":"2026-03-26T03:40:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T03:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/206386\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T03:40:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T03:40:27","slug":"victor-hedman-taking-temporary-leave-of-absence-from-tampa-bay-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/206386\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Hedman taking temporary leave of absence from Tampa Bay Lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/lightning-victor-hedman-captain-86f823fcdd23c50891b59df4264b7d9d\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tampa Bay Lightning captain<\/a> Victor Hedman is taking a temporary leave of absence for personal reasons, the team announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Lightning did not share further details and asked for Hedman\u2019s privacy to be respected.<\/p>\n<p>The Swedish defenseman is in his 17th NHL season, all with Tampa Bay, a run that includes <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/fl-state-wire-montreal-canadiens-tampa-bay-lightning-canada-hockey-78ac7459e35576c83c5512baf63c43c4\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">back-to-back Stanley Cup titles<\/a> in 2020 and &#8217;21 and two additional trips to the final. He won the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/sports-nhl-canada-hockey-tampa-bay-lightning-64b4ef92224d5603fe4c67637ec3a7bd\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP<\/a> in the 2020 bubble.<\/p>\n<p>Hedman, 35, missed time in November, December and January because of injury and <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/victor-hedman-injury-38517f4fc0be3f4864c97825b0603272\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">subsequent elbow surgery<\/a> to repair it.<\/p>\n<p>He returned in early February and represented his country at this year&#8217;s Milan Cortina Olympics. Hedman has a goal and 16 assists and is averaging nearly 19 minutes of ice time over 33 games for the likely playoff-bound Lightning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Lightning captain Victor Hedman is taking a temporary leave of absence for personal reasons, the team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-206386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206386","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=206386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}