{"id":81384,"date":"2025-12-12T20:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T20:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/81384\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T20:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T20:59:09","slug":"tampa-bay-lightning-victor-hedman-to-have-elbow-procedure-expected-to-be-ready-for-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/81384\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Lightning Victor Hedman to have elbow procedure, expected to be ready for Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/tampa-bay-lightning\/14\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/tampa-bay-lightning\/14\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/victor-hedman\/8475167\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/victor-hedman\/8475167\" target=\"_blank\">Victor Hedman<\/a> will have a procedure on his injured elbow done on Monday but he is expected to return in early February in time for the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hedman was one of the first six players named to Team Sweden for the Olympics in Milan. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Injury Update: Victor Hedman will have a procedure on his elbow on Monday. He is expected to return in early February and play for Team Sweden in the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tampa Bay Lightning (@TBLightning) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TBLightning\/status\/1999561730360250721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 12, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hedman suffered the injury in Tuesday\u2019s 6-1 win over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/montreal-canadiens\/8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/montreal-canadiens\/8\" target=\"_blank\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a>. He played just 6:14 before leaving the game and missed Thursday\u2019s contest against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/new-jersey-devils\/1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/new-jersey-devils\/1\" target=\"_blank\">New Jersey Devils<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 34-year-old has 12 assists in 18 games this season while averaging 21:05 of ice time. He previously missed nearly a month with an undisclosed injury earlier in the season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Ornskoldsvik, Sweden native has represented his country on a number of occasions, including at the U18s, World Juniors and World Championships, where he won gold in 2017. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Lightning defenceman Victor Hedman will have a procedure on his injured elbow done on Monday but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1623,135,137,136,35326,45303],"class_list":["post-81384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-apple-news","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-tampa-bay-lightning-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-14","tag-victor-hedman-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8475167"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81384","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=81384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}