{"id":334959,"date":"2025-12-07T11:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T11:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/334959\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T11:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T11:42:12","slug":"wiesblatt-out-8-10-weeks-for-predators-with-upper-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/334959\/","title":{"rendered":"Wiesblatt out 8-10 weeks for Predators with upper-body injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/ozzy-wiesblatt-8482103\" title=\"Ozzy Wiesblatt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ozzy Wiesblatt<\/a> will be out 8-10 weeks for the Nashville Predators because of an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>The forward was injured in a 2-1 overtime win against the Florida Panthers on Thursday. He left during his first shift of the game after colliding with Panthers forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/carter-verhaeghe-8477409\" title=\"Carter Verhaeghe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carter Verhaeghe<\/a> and then teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/michael-mccarron-8477446\" title=\"Michael McCarron\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael McCarron<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wiesblatt has four points (one goal, three assists) in 24 games this season. He scored his first NHL goal in a 5-1 win against the Calgary Flames on Dec. 2.<\/p>\n<p>A first-round pick (No. 31) by Nashville in the 2020 NHL Draft, Wiesblatt has five points (one goal, four assists) in 29 games.<\/p>\n<p>Defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/justin-barron-8482111\" title=\"Justin Barron\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Barron<\/a> is week to week with an upper-body injury and was placed on injured reserve Friday. He has four assists in 19 games this season and has not played since Nov. 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ozzy Wiesblatt will be out 8-10 weeks for the Nashville Predators because of an upper-body injury. The forward&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-334959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}