{"id":14956,"date":"2025-10-25T20:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T20:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/14956\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T20:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T20:03:11","slug":"caleb-jones-on-ir-out-for-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/14956\/","title":{"rendered":"Caleb Jones on IR, Out for Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/pittsburgh-penguins\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> defenseman Caleb Jones blocked a shot in the third period of the team\u2019s 5-3 win over the Florida Panthers at Amerant Bank Arena Thursday. The Penguins won, but the defenseman lost. <\/p>\n<p>Saturday morning, the team announced Jones will miss eight weeks with a lower-body injury. <\/p>\n<p>Jones, 28, hobbled off the ice, unable to put pressure on his left leg or foot at 6:48 of the third. He did not return, and coach <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/dan-muse\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Muse<\/a> said following that game that he was being evaluated.<\/p>\n<p>The team placed the left-handed Jones on injured reserve, which would open a roster spot if the Penguins choose to recall another left-handed defenseman. The team has only two healthy lefties, <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/parker-wotherspoon\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Parker Wotherspoon<\/a> and Ryan Shea. <\/p>\n<p>Connor Clifton, a right-handed defenseman, played his second game this season on Saturday. Clifton or <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/matt-dumba\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Dumba<\/a> are the next defensemen in line for playing time, but Dumba is also right-handed. <\/p>\n<p>Top defenseman prospect <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/owen-pickering\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Owen Pickering<\/a> was among the final cuts in training camp and played 25 games last season. T6-foot-5 Pickering is left-handed. The team also waived Ryan Graves, a left-handed defenseman, following camp. Either could be recalled.  <\/p>\n<p>As of publishing, no recall announcement has been made. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTags: <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/caleb-jones\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">caleb jones<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/penguins-news\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Penguins news<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/pittsburgh-penguins\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"categories\">Categorized: <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/category\/penguins-news\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Penguins News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Caleb Jones blocked a shot in the third period of the team\u2019s 5-3 win over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[11246,11247,73,75,74,1067],"class_list":{"0":"post-14956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-caleb-jones","9":"tag-penguins-news","10":"tag-pittsburgh","11":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","12":"tag-pittsburgh-news","13":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}