{"id":441424,"date":"2026-01-31T19:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T19:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/441424\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T19:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T19:42:07","slug":"penguins-defenseman-kris-letang-placed-on-injured-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/441424\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins defenseman Kris Letang placed on injured reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Kris Letang was placed on injured reserve due to a fracture in an unspecified foot on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>He is expected to be sidelined a minimum of four weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The team announced the designation via a social media posting.<\/p>\n<p>Letang, 38, was sidelined for two games last week due to an undisclosed injury but skated in each of the team\u2019s past two games.<\/p>\n<p>Typically stationed on the right side of the second pairing, Letang has skated in 50 games this season and scored 25 points (three goals, 22 assists) while averaging 22:06 of ice time per contest.<\/p>\n<p>Letang and forward Evgeni Malkin each missed a practice session on Friday in Cranberry due to injuries. There was no update as to Malkin\u2019s status on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Kris Letang was placed on injured reserve due to a fracture in an unspecified foot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-441424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441424","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=441424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}