{"id":338221,"date":"2025-12-09T03:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T03:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/338221\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T03:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T03:41:07","slug":"nhl-status-report-point-returns-for-lightning-against-maple-leafs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/338221\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Status Report: Point returns for Lightning against Maple Leafs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the NHL Status Report. Here is the latest lineup\/injury news around the NHL.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay Lightning<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/brayden-point-8478010\" title=\"Brayden Point\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brayden Point<\/a> returned for the Lightning against the Toronto Maple Leafs on Monday after missing seven games because of an undisclosed injury. \u201cThat\u2019s a bonus for us,\u201d coach Jon Cooper said. \u201cI\u2019ve really liked our game, I&#8217;ve liked the way we&#8217;ve played \u2026 every team gets injuries, and I don&#8217;t remember, though, for us personally, even through our Cup runs and all that, not since 2017 has this happened to us.\u201d \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/andrei-vasilevskiy-8476883\" title=\"Andrei Vasilevskiy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrei Vasilevskiy<\/a> (undisclosed) was placed on injured reserve. Tampa Bay\u2019s No. 1 goalie has missed the past three games and also won\u2019t be available for its game on Tuesday at the Montreal Canadiens. Vasilevskiy is 11-6-1 with a 2.31 goals-against average and .917 save percentage in 19 starts. \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/nikita-kucherov-8476453\" title=\"Nikita Kucherov\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nikita Kucherov<\/a> (undisclosed) participated in the morning skate on Monday and also return after the forward did not play on Saturday. Kucherov leads the Lightning with 34 points (12 goals, 22 assists) in 25 games.<\/p>\n<p>Utah Mammoth<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/logan-cooley-8483431\" title=\"Logan Cooley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Logan Cooley<\/a> is out indefinitely with a lower-body injury, the Mammoth announced Monday before their game against the Los Angeles Kings. Cooley, a forward, last played Dec. 5 in a 4-1 win at the Vancouver Canucks. He is third on the Mammoth with 23 points (14 goals, nine assists) in 29 games. \u201cUnfortunately, he&#8217;ll be missing some time,\u201d Utah coach Andre Tourigny said. \u201cWith that said, I think every team is going through adversity and it&#8217;s an opportunity for someone else to step in.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to the NHL Status Report. Here is the latest lineup\/injury news around the NHL. Tampa Bay Lightning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-338221","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\/338221","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=338221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}