{"id":606214,"date":"2026-04-25T20:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T20:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/606214\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T20:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T20:20:07","slug":"ehlers-misses-game-4-of-east-1st-round-for-hurricanes-with-lower-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/606214\/","title":{"rendered":"Ehlers misses Game 4 of East 1st Round for Hurricanes with lower-body injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/nikolaj-ehlers-8477940\" title=\"Nikolaj Ehlers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nikolaj Ehlers<\/a> did not play for the Carolina Hurricanes in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference First Round against the Ottawa Senators at Canadian Tire Centre on Saturday\u00a0because of a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>The forward played 17:06 in Carolina\u2019s 2-1 win here on Thursday. Ehlers has one assist in three games in the best-of-7 series, which the Hurricanes lead 3-0.<\/p>\n<p>Forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/nicolas-deslauriers-8475235\" title=\"Nicolas Deslauriers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicolas Deslauriers<\/a> replaced Ehlers in the lineup.<\/p>\n<p>Ehlers ranked second for Carolina during the regular season with 71 points (26 goals, 45 assists) in 82 games. He signed a six-year, $51 million contract ($8.5 million average annual value) with the Hurricanes on July 3, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA &#8212; Nikolaj Ehlers did not play for the Carolina Hurricanes in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-606214","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\/606214","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=606214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}